Democratic Republic of the Congo
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. 230 on the Great Lakes (Friday 15 August 1997) - Hundreds more refugees arrived in the DRC today fleeing…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(Says principles of asylum becoming difficult to uphold) (670) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The situation for refugees in the Great Lakes area of Africa is steadily worsening and the principle of asylum is becoming more difficult to uphold, according…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - Des centaines de refugies supplementaires sont arrives aujourd'hui en RDC, fuyant les affrontements de l'autre cote du fleuve, a Brazzaville, au Congo.…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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 - Regional cooperation and development was the theme of a two day mini-summit in Kinshasa between the presidents of the DRC, Rwanda…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
A diplomatic row is brewing between Laurent Kabila's Congo and neighbouring Sudan over a consignment of gold confiscated a decade ago from anti-Mobutu rebels. Sudan refuses to return the gold. NHIAL BOL in Khartoum LEADERS of Sudan and the…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - La cooperation regionale et le developpement etaient a l'ordre du jour du mini sommet de deux jours qui s'est tenu a Kinshasa…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Segun Adeyemi, PANA Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (PANA) - The UN Security Council has said that it will not deploy a much-awaited peacekeeping force to the Congo unless the conditions set for the deployment are met. The conditions, set by…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moses Draku, PANA Correspondent KAMPALA, Uganda (PANA) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has described his counterpart Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo as being Afro-centric because he consults us Africans . Museveni said this in Kampala Thursday at a news conference…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
S/PRST/1997/43 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL At the 3810th meeting of the Security Council, held on 13 August 1997 in connection with the Council's consideration of the item entitled "The situation in the Republic of the Congo", the…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Great Lakes Region: Kigoma refugees slated to go home The governments of Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) have agreed the repatriation of almost 100,000 Congolese refugees in Tanzania's Kigoma region should commence as soon as possible. The agreement…
