Rapports

Howard French, reporting for the New York Times, says the political class in Kinshasa has essentially lost all power and the people of the city, namely the opposition, are preparing to welcome in the ADFL and its spokesman Laurent…

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 169 d'information sur la region des Grands Lacs (du samedi 10 au lundi 12 mai 97) * Une reunion…

(10:04am AEST) Zaire rebels appear to have sunk any chance of a negotiated settlement in their seven-month civil war against the rule of President Mobutu Sese Seko. Africa correspondent Ben Wilson reports from Kinshasa, the rebels say their advance on the…

ACT Co-ordinating Office DATELINE ACT Great Lakes Region, Africa No 16 ACT sends medicine to Zaire Geneva, May 12, 1997 At noon today Monday, ACT-Norwegian Church Aid send a first flight of 13 tons of essential medicine to Kisangani in Eastern Zaire. In…

UNHCR mission returns from Km. 82 UN planes airlift 18,614 Rwandan refugees from central Zairean town of Kisangani to Rwanda Around 20,00 refugees still at Biaro; UNHCR seeks access to several thousand more south and west of Biaro…

There are ominous indicators that say the assault on Kinshasa may occur this week, perhaps as early as May 14, just two days away: ADFL foreign affairs spokesman Karaha has said the ADFL strategy is to "talk and fight and…

AEF101 05/12/97 (FR) (U.N. investigators blocked from ADFL-held territory) (690) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it continues to receive reports of killings and disappearances of Rwandan refugees in all areas of eastern Zaire,…

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.169 on the Great Lakes (Saturday 10 - Monday 12 May 1997) - A surprise meeting between the…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KINSHASA, ZAIRE -- An international scramble is under way to influence the future of a Central African giant, a century after imperial powers carved out its borders. South Africa, France, and…