Rapports

Since assuming office last May, DRC President Laurent-Desire Kabila has reshuffled his government several times. The latest team is made up of 20 ministers and four deputy ministers. Former exiles now head nine ministries. People from Katanga hold most…

DATE=10/12/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-221150 TITLE=CONGO/U-N (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=BUKAVU CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: U-N REFUGEE AGENCIES HAVE BEGUN WITHDRAWING STAFF FROM ANOTHER CITY IN EASTERN CONGO. AS SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS, THE AGENCY IS PULLING SOME OF ITS PEOPLE OUT OF BUKAVU BECAUSE THEIR ACCESS TO…

DATE=10/10/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-221086 TITLE=UNHCR / CONGO (L-ONLY) BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN DATELINE=GENEVA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED NATIONS REFUGEE AGENCY, OR U-N-H-C-R, IS ACCUSING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF NOT COMING TO THE DEFENSE OF AID AGENCIES RECENTLY ORDERED OUT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees continues to be "deeply preoccupied" about the situation in the Great Lakes region, according to UNHCR spokeswoman Pam O'Toole. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, she said that UNHCR was now unable to carry…

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While Laurent Kabila's government keeps a United Nations massacre investigation at bay, two world-renowned human rights groups have released a report -- including photographs -- alleging mass murder by Kabila's advancing rebel forces. FARHAN HAQ reports TWO human rights groups…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for the Great Lakes Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 267 on the Great Lakes (Friday, 10 October 1997) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Lissouba admits fall of Brazzaville…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for the Great Lakes Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org [The weekly roundup is based on IRIN daily updates and other relevant information from UN agencies, NGOs, governments, donors and the…

Thursday October 9 8:41 AM EDT By William Wallis KINSHASA, Zaire (Reuter) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo capital Kinshasa was calm on Thursday after a day of rocket and artillery exchanges with neighboring Congo Brazzaville killed two guards at…

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH / AFRICA FéDéRATION INTERNATIONALE DES LIGUES DES DROITS DE L'HOMME (October 9, 1997) Human Rights Watch and the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) today released irrefutable physical evidence of massacres of refugees by troops fighting with…