Rapports

Goma - WV staff in Goma said it was quiet during the past week. Insecurity has been reported in the Masisi region north of Goma but the staff has been able to continue their activities in Rutchuru. Uvira -…

KINSHASA (Reuter) - Three people were shot dead by soldiers in Kinshasa Friday during a protest by about 1,000 opposition activists at President Laurent Kabila's banning of political activity, witnesses said. The soldiers opened fire after the demonstrators from the radical PALU party loyal to the…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The Security Council has welcomed the decision of the Secretary- General to appoint Mr. Robin Kinloch (United Kingdom) as his Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a letter to the UN leader, Council President, Ambassador Peter…

Every day, six ICRC delegates cross the Congo on barges loaded with food and medical supplies from Kinshasa for people in Brazzaville. Congolese Red Cross staff accompany the delegates on their rounds. To the north of the city the number…

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 (Tuesday 22 July 1997) - Over 80 Rwandans in Kenya were arrested over the weekend and yesterday. The arrests follow the…

Elliot Mahende, PANA Correspondent KINSHASA, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The African summit in Kinshasa on Sunday appeared to strengthen President Laurent kabila in the face of persistent criticism from the United Nations, France and Belgium over alleged massacres of refugees, a…

Reporter CHRIS MCGREAL visits the killing fields of the eastern Congo to find evidence that the Rwandan military may have played a role in the grisly massacres SIX VILLAGERS led the way up the narrow path off the main road…

NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN: Bulletin quotidien no 198 d'information sur la region des Grands Lacs (du vendredi 20 juin 97) * Des groupes armes ont tue…

(Excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Sadako Ogata has strongly condemned the killing of a UNHCR driver, his wife and two children in northwestern Rwanda. According to UNHCR, unknown gunmen killed the driver and his family on…

For educational use only: KAMPALA, Uganda (PANA) - The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have ordered tens of thousands of Ugandan refugees camped across the border to either return to Uganda or be shifted to refugee camps 70 km…