Rapports

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 159 d'information sur la region des Grands Lacs (du samedi 26 au lundi 28 avril 97) * Les organisations…

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 - Aid agencies today expressed concern over a 60-day deadline set by rebel leader Laurent-Desire Kabila to find and repatriate tens…

GENEVA (Reuter) - Men in military uniforms seized some 50 ailing Hutu refugee children from a hospital in rebel- held eastern Zaire near the Rwandan border at the weekend, the United Nations Childrens' Fund UNICEF said on Monday. The children,…

GOMA, Zaire, April 28 (Reuter) - Zairean rebel chief Laurent Kabila flew to Goma in eastern Zaire on Monday and said he would meet U.S. envoy Bill Richardson on Wednesday as part of attempts to broker a peaceful end…

(4:34am AEST) Zaire's rebel leader Laurent Kabila has given the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 60 days to repatriate more than 85-thousand refugees from the Kisangani region of eastern Zaire. Mr Kabila set the deadline at a meeting with international officials…

DATE=4/28/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-215319 TITLE=ZAIRE REFUGEES (L ONLY) BYLINE=ELAINE JOHANSON DATELINE=UNITED NATIONS CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: U-N SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN SAYS HE IS ENCOURAGED ZAIREAN REBEL LEADER LAURENT KABILA HAS TAKEN PERSONAL CHARGE OF THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN EASTERN ZAIRE AND HAS PLEDGED TO COOPERATE WITH THE…

ICRC air bridge for internally displaced continues Since 15 April, more than 3,500 Zairian displaced have been flown back from Kisangani to Goma and Bukavu, despite technical problems which grounded two aircraft for two days. For most of the week, a…

SG/SM/6226 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is encouraged that Laurent Kabila travelled to Kisangani over the weekend to take personal charge of the grave humanitarian situation involving Rwandan refugees…

DATE=4/28/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-213507 TITLE=ZAIRE REFUGEES (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: AID WORKERS SAID MONDAY THEY HAVE FOUND THOUSANDS OF RWANDAN REFUGEES SOUTH OF THE ZAIREAN CITY OF KISANGANI. AS SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS, REBELS HAVE GIVEN AID AGENCIES JUST MORE THAN TWO-MONTHS TO GET…

DATE=4/28/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-215320 TITLE=ZAIRE/U-S ENVOY (L UPDATE) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE=KINSHASA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: U-S ENVOY BILL RICHARDSON ARRIVED MONDAY IN KINSHASA FOR TALKS WITH ZAIREAN PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE SEKO ON THE WORSENING CRISIS IN THAT COUNTRY. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT PURNELL MURDOCK REPORTS FROM THE ZAIREAN CAPITAL. TEXT:…