Rapports

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) ZAIRE - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet # 4 Fiscal Year (FY) 1997 March 20, 1997 Note: The first three Zaire Fact Sheets appeared in…

4:55 PM EST KINSHASA (Reuter) - Zaire's ailing and embattled president, Mobutu Sese Seko, planned to return home from France Friday to confront the growing support for rebel leader Laurent Kabila. In a statement on the eve of his departure, Mobutu called…

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 - An attack on three displaced persons camps in Buganda commune of Cibitoke province of Burundi has left 135 dead and…

Tambayi Nyika PANA Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - The Organisation of African Unity's (OAU) ongoing efforts to resolve the five-month old crisis In Zaire through negotiations is likely to come unstuck as the anti-government forces have defiantly decided to settle…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced today it is seeking $115 million for its programs this year in the Great Lakes region, focusing on the return of tens of thousands of refugees in eastern Zaire and rehabilitation…

Goma - With the relentless advance of the Zairean rebels, to negotiate or flee seem to be the only options open to the government. Chris McGreal reports AN air of doom has settled on Zaire's beleaguered regime after the lightning…

A meeting of African heads of state has called for an immediate ceasfire in Zaire's bloody civil war. A six nation conference in Nairobi called for the ceasefire and a cooling off period to allow a negotiated settlement. The conference…

DATE=3/20/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-211772 TITLE=ZAIRE / FRANCE (L ONLY) BYLINE=JULIAN NUNDY DATELINE=PARIS CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: FRANCE IS SENDING TROOPS AND AIRCRAFT TO GABON AND CONGO TO STAND BY IN CASE FRENCH NATIONALS ARE UNDER THREAT FROM THE WAR IN ZAIRE. JULIAN NUNDY REPORTS FROM PARIS. TEXT: THE…

Ed O'Loughlin, Special to The Christian Science Monitor GOMA, ZAIRE -- In a large school building near Goma's airport, more than 1,200 adults sat hunched over notebooks and scraps of paper yesterday, pens moving in unison. From the stage, a…

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 A rare disease related to smallpox has broken out in eastern Zaire, and threatens in particular children under 15. Monkeypox (French:…