Informes

Press Release SC/6248 Presidential Statement Calls on Burundian Parties To Halt All Violence and Engage in National Reconciliation Efforts The Security Council this evening condemned the actions that led to the overthrow of constitutional order in Burundi and urged the country's…

By STEFAN LOVGREN Associated Press Writer BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - Thousands of people marched through the streets of the capital today, chanting slogans in support of the Tutsi army major who replaced Burundi's Hutu president in a military coup. Pierre Buyoya was…

Bujumbura - The coup in Burundi on July 25 came despite warnings a day earlier by the United Nations Security Council, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the European Community and other leading Western nations, that any attempt by the military…

General A: Events of 24-25 July Bujumbura, and most other regions of the country remain relatively calm, and UN agencies will resume missions in the field this week. After two days of confusion over who was running the country, Defense Minister…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 441125 Fax: +254 2 448816 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 19 in a series of weekly reports from…

OUTSIDE BAMUT, Russia (Jul 28, 1996 1:11 p.m. EDT) - At night they are shot at out of the darkness and in the early morning they see wounded comrades being brought from the battlefield, knowing they could be next. Now…

General A: Events of 24-25 July Bujumbura, and most other regions of the country remain relatively calm, and UN agencies will resume missions in the field this week. After two days of confusion over who was running the country, Defense Minister…

ABUJA, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS summit, which ends here Saturday, has been examining, among other things, possibilities of imposing sanctions against Liberian factional leaders. The envisaged sanctions are contained in draft resolutions submitted to the summit of the 16-nation…

KINSHASA, July 27 (Reuter) - Zaire on Saturday stepped up security checks on aid consignments after saying it had found a consignment of weapons for the Rwandan government army in a cargo plane chartered by aid organisations. Interior Minister Kamanda…

(FR) (Preparing contingency plan) (540) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is watching the situation in Burundi "extremely carefully" and preparing a contingency plan to assist as many as 300,000…