Rapports

DATE=3/17/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-211581 TITLE=U-N/ZAIRE (L ONLY) BYLINE=DOUGLAS ROBERTS DATELINE=GENEVA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED NATIONS HAS BEGUN TO REPATRIATE SMALL NUMBERS OF RWANDAN REFUGEES FROM REBEL-HELD TERRITORY IN EASTERN ZAIRE. BUT U-N OFFICIALS IN GENEVA SAY THEY REMAIN GRAVELY CONCERNED ABOUT MORE THAN 100-THOUSAND OTHER…

High Commissioner urges warring factions to allow humanitarian workers full access to refugees in Ubundu in east central Zaire in the wake of latest advance by the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL). UNHCR looks into…

Zaire's rebels are pushing on towards their latest objective, the country's second largest city, Lubumbashi, following their victory over government forces in the battle for Kisangani. Africa correspondent Ben Wilson reports, the rebels now control all of eastern Zaire with…

4:49 PM EST KISANGANI, Zaire (Reuter) - Hundreds of Zairian government troops handed their weapons over to victorious rebels Monday in Kisangani, Zaire's third largest city, as the central government told its citizens not to panic over the military defeat. Around…

Monday March 17 3:57 PM EST NAIROBI (Reuter) - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata Monday urged warring factions to give aid workers access to hundreds of thousands of exhausted refugees in war-torn eastern Zaire. "The refugees are at the…

2:44 AM EST KISANGANI, Zaire (Reuter) - President Mobutu Sese Seko's prospects of holding onto power in Zaire looked significantly weaker after rebels seized the key city of Kisangani and were welcomed as liberators. Laurent Kabila's rebels were exultant after their biggest…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 128 on the Great Lakes (15-16 March 1997) - Zairean rebels captured Kisangani - Zaire's third largest city - on Saturday,…

ALGIERS, Algeria (PANA) - President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo has invited his Algerian counterpart, Liamine Zeroual, to attend a summit devoted to the crisis in the Great Lakes, to be held in Lome from March 25-26. The invitation was delivered…

The United Nation's High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, has urged the warring factions to give humanitarian workers full access to hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced people scattered around the jungles of central-eastern Zaire. "The refugees are at…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - A "terrible storm" hit the Ubundu area yesterday afternoon and the Federation estimates that large numbers of Rwandan refugees caught while crossing the…