Rapports

DATE=5/21/97 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-36451 TITLE=ZAIRE / KABILA PROFILE BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=KINSHASA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: LAURENT KABILA SPENT MOST OF LIFE UNTIL NOW FIGHTING THE CENTRAL ZAIREAN GOVERNMENT IN KINSHASA. BUT NOW, HE IS THE HEAD OF THAT GOVERNMENT, IN A NATION WITH A NEW…

Assistance to refugees in Zaire and returnees in Rwanda Geneva, May 21, 1997 While much of the newly declared Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, is celebrating the ousting of Mobuto Sese Seko and the coming into power of…

Gail Russell Chaddock, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor PARIS -- When Africa's third-largest nation changed hands over the weekend, it became the biggest event on the continent since the end of white rule in South Africa. But for…

KINSHASA, Zaire (Reuter) - Self-proclaimed president Laurent Kabila was expected to unveil a transitional government Tuesday, marking the end of decades of dictatorship in Zaire, the country he has renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo. But a top official of…

NEW YORK, United Nations (PANA) - The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed the transfer of power in Zaire, which is now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. His spokesman Fred Eckhard said on Monday that Annan urged…

Our operation in Zaire or the Democratic Republic of Congo is moving into a new phase. We are still continuing the airlift out of Kisangani (or Stanleyville ). But we are now also beginning to send out smaller teams…

by Dean R. Hirsch, World Vision International President In the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), a change of government now provides an important step on the road to freedom, stability and dignity. Respect for human life is critical if children…

by Margaret Jephson, WVI Communications associate Civilians Kinshasa were "singing, dancing and rejoicing" at the news that forces of Laurent Kabila's Democratic Alliance for the Liberation of Congo (ADFL) are now in control of the new government of the Republic of…

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 177 d'information sur la region des Grands Lacs (du mardi 20 mai 97) * Laurent-Desire Kabila, le President auto-proclame de…

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.177 on the Great Lakes (20 May 1997) - Laurent-Desire Kabila, self-proclaimed President of the Democratic Republic of Congo…