Rapports

UN humanitarian mission flies to Kisangani for the first time since the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL) captured the city over the weekend. Tens of thousands of refugees in the east central Zaire town of…

EASTERN ZAIRE The humanitarian evacuation of unaccompanied children (UACs) from Tingi-Tingi, which started on Monday 17 March, continued yesterday (please see update 50). UNICEF staff was CEDC Officer Enrico Leonardi and Emergency Officer Charlie Main were in Tingi-Tingi yesterday and returned with…

The Zairian Prime Minister, Leon Kengo wa Dondo has been sacked by Parliament while in Nairobi attending a peace conference. Military leaders had been among Kengo's harshest critics, blaming him for setbacks in the war against rebels who have captured most…

*97031901.AAF (3/19 State Department background briefing) (800) By Jane A. Morse USIA Diplomatic Correspondent WASHINGTON -- Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko, reportedly gravely ill in Europe, "has basically become irrelevant," says a U.S. government official who briefed reporters at the State Department. Meanwhile,…

In Eastern Zaire, Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda January - December 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTSTable I: UN Agency Requirements for 1997 by Appealing Agency Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 The Present Document 1.3 Conclusion 2. Country Situations3. Regional Strategy and Programmes4. Strategy and Programmes by…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - As rebels continued their advance across Zaire, the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, were rife with rumours today concerning the health…

KINSHASA, Zaire (PANA) - Journalists in Kishasa have created a support committee for the former Zairian Ambassador to France, Ramazan Baya, whose trial for a fatal traffic offence opens in France on March 25. Baya, on Nov. 20, 1996, knocked…

Jonas Savimbi's men are fighting in Zaire on Mobutu's side -- and Angolan government troops have joined the rebels. CHRIS MCGREAL reports from Kinshasa ANGOLAN combatants are using both sides in Zaire's civil war to repay debts and settle old…

TUESDAY, 1.00PM: ANGOLAN soldiers are fighting on both sides of the Zaire combat -- with Unita supporting the Mobutu government and the Angolan government helping the rebels. Unita is repaying an old debt. Jonas Savimbi owes his survival to Zairean…

CAPITAL MORALE has plunged in Kinshasa, with rumours that Mobutu Sese Seko has died and that army generals, who are known to have been in meetings since Saturday, are plotting to take over. Thousands of citizens are fleeing, with…