Informes

WHEATON, Ill. -- Liberians in Monrovia, desperate for food, have called World Relief's Wheaton headquarters and U.S. partner offices with pleas for help. While rice, the staple, is available, the price has skyrocketed so that the average Liberian, who is…

DATE=5/16/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-197305 TITLE=ZAIRE / VIOLENCE (L ONLY) BYLINE=CHRIS TOMLINSON DATELINE=KIGALI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: HUTUS ARMED WITH ASSAULT RIFLES AND MACHETES HAVE ATTACKED A CHURCH IN EASTERN ZAIRE WHERE HUNDREDS OF FRIGHTENED TUTSIS HAD SOUGHT REFUGE. CHRIS TOMLINSON IN KIGALI REPORTS AID WORKERS SAY AT…

This document is prepared by the Central News Section of the Department of Public Information and is updated every week-day at approximately 6:00 PM. The Security Council has expressed concern at the continued deterioration of the security situation in Burundi.…

Washington, DC - Text of prepared statement on Burundi by Anthony Lake, President Clinton's national security adviser on May 14, following talks with top government officials and representatives of local and international organizations in Bujumbura. Lake's itinerary also includes Kigali,…

10-12 May 1996 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT WAS PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN LIBERIA UN AGENCIES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND NGOS SUMMARY SPORADIC FIGHTING AND LOOTING CONTINUES. BUT, IN MOST…

Following the recent intensification of the civil conflict in Bubanza and Cibitoke provinces in northwestern Burundi, an upsurge in the number of refugees moving across the border into Zaire has been reported. UNHCR now estimates that approximately 23,000 refugees have…

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the Special Envoy, Kigali Main Developments Over 22,000 Burundian refugees have arrived in Uvira camps since April 29 from provinces in the northwest of the country following the assassination of a member of…

Save the Children welcomes Ghana's announcement that it has allowed the Bulk Challenge with its 3,600 Liberian passengers to dock. But the agency called upon the international community and West African states to recognise the extent of the crisis…

By Christian Jennings BUJUMBURA, May 13 (Reuter) - Humanitarian sources in Burundi said on Monday more than 375 people, most or all Hutus, were massacred on May 3 in the northern village of Kivyuka. The Tutsi-dominated army said last week it…

The World Food Programme has averted a major food crisis in the southern Liberian city of Buchanan, where Monday the Programme was unloading food for distribution among hundreds of thousands of hungry people. The WFP-chartered ship, the MV Hollgen Star, arrived…