Rapports

KINSHASA, Congo (PANA) - A UN mission has arrived in Kinshasa to probe the alleged massacre of thousands of Rwandan refugees in the eastern part of the Demoratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire). Diplomatic sources in Kinshasa said Monday the 23-man…

National News Jose Endundo, the head of the Congolese Business Federation (FEC) and chairman of Congo Airlines, has been arrested. William Wallis reports for Reuter that, as usual, no official explanation is provided. This arrest comes on the heels of…

President Kabila is in Pretoria for one-day meetings with South African officials, said to be focused on how South Africa can help rehabilitate the Congolese economy. Congo's ministers of foreign affairs, finance, post and telecommunications, mines and the economy were…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's team charged with investigating allegations of massacres of Rwandan refugees and other atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has started its work, a UN spokesman announced today. The team, which arrived in the…

The UN is reporting that humanitarian sources say that rebel forces crossed into the DRC across Lake Tanganyika from Tanzania and attacked a number of ADFL military positions inside the DRC, near Baraka. The newspaper Le Salongo is reporting that Field…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 34 of 1997 Date: 22 August 1997 This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) East Africa: Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Sudan C) Central Africa:…

Regional News Officials in Pointe Noire, Congo-Brazzaville are reporting a massive influx of refugees from the fighting in Brazzaville. Pointe Noire is the country's hub for its oil industry and has generally been unaffected by the fighting in Brazzaville. William…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS Some 74,000 Congolese refugees in camps in Tanzania's Kigoma area will be repatriated voluntarily under a new agreement reached yesterday between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Republic of Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of…

Health and Nutrition As part of a vaccination project in North Kivu, UNICEF has so far provided local health authorities with 270,000 doses of vaccines. The vaccines against measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tuberculosis and tetanus have been transported to various heath…

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 - Humanitarian sources in DRC report that repatriation operations in Shabunda, Lulingu and Katshungu have remained "very limited" despite previous reports mentioning…