Rapports

About 350 British soldiers are stationed in Brazzaville and Libreville ready to help evacuate British citizens if a full scale rebel attack is launched. Those not lucky enough to have the right passport may have to settle for the…

Africa's first nuclear reactor, in Kinshasa, has a less than secure location and rumours have swept the capital that it may be blown up. CHRIS MCGREAL in Kinshasa IN A wooded corner of Kinshasa - through a quagmire once called…

(12:03pm AEST) Leaflets circulating in the Zaire capital Kinshasa, have called for a two day strike to indicate the city is ready for rebel forces to seize control of the country. Africa correspondent Ben Wilson reports residents are being urged to…

Refugees currently in Tanzania Uganda Rwanda Zaire Burundi From Rwanda - 16,000 - 294,463 2,000 Zaire 100,715 21,000 12,500 - 20,000 Burundi 275,954 - 7,000 44,000 - Other 3,908 - - - - Total 380,577 37,000…

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.170 on the Great Lakes (13 May 1997) - BBC reports today that the Zairean government has announced a…

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 170 d'information sur la region des Grands Lacs (du mardi 13 mai 97) * La BBC a rapporte aujourd'hui…

Tuesday May 13 8:27 AM EDT TOKYO (Reuter) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday an urgent international reconstruction effort would be needed when fighting ended in Zaire. "Even if the fighting stops, that doesn't mean our work is over," Annan…

A UNHCR mission was yesterday for the first time allowed to carry out a cross border mission from Angola into Zaire to look for thousands of Rwandan refugees who are reported to be around the border region. An official…

CF/DOC/IN/1997-06 -- Attack on UNICEF staf in Goma, E. Zaire The following statement was released at the press briefing in Geneva this morning. CF/DOC/IN/1997-06 Shortly after 0700 on the morning of Monday 12 May, five armed men dressed in military uniforms entered…

GENEVA (Reuter) - Armed men in rebel uniforms in eastern Zaire beat two staff members from the U.N. children's agency and stabbed them with bayonets, UNICEF officials said Tuesday. Spokeswoman Marie Heuze said UNICEF condemned ''this act of barbarism'' in…