Rapports

Once the euphoria of liberation has passed, Zaireans in rebel territory look into the rebel soldiers' faces and listen to their accents, wondering if they have not been occupied by foreigners. And perhaps they have been. The fighting core…

(Excerpt :) Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, reminded correspondents at the start of today's briefing that the Spokesman's Office had issued the following statement over the weekend: "The Secretary-General is gratified that President Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila…

Zaireans have heard too many promises before from Mobutu. They have no faith in the foreign powers who supported him for so long. Which is why, on the streets of Kinshasa, the talks are treated with derision CHRIS MCGREAL LEOPOLD…

(5:44am AEST) One-hundred refugees have died in Zaire after trying to board a train taking them from a camp near Kisangani for repatriation to Rwanda They were crushed and suffocated as thousands of refugees tried to board the train which was…

LUBUMBASHI, Zaire (Reuter) - U.S. envoy Bill Richardson said Monday he was trying to arrange for a ''soft landing'' without bloodshed by Zairian rebels when they enter the capital Kinshasa. ''The objective of my urgent mission is to prepare a soft-landing…

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.164 on the Great Lakes (Saturday 3 - Monday 5 May 1997) - Months of diplomatic activity finally led…

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 164 d'information sur la region des Grands Lacs (du samedi 3 au lundi 5 mai 97) * Des mois…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KINSHASA, ZAIRE -- The curtain has all but fallen on the 31-year dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko as he seeks a graceful exit from Zaire. But the next act for…

Kinshasa's Mr. Mobutu and ADFL rebel spokesman Kabila met aboard the South Africa icebreaker, the SAS Outeniqua, off Pointe Noire, Angola with President Mandela. It appears that American UN Ambassador William Richardson was also on board for the talks. Mr.…

KISANGANI, Zaire (Reuter) - The United Nations averted an attempt to move more Rwandan refugees by train Monday but Zairian rebels brought hundreds by truck and dumped them by the bodies of those killed in a stampede on the…