Rapports

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has NOT ruled out military intervention in Zaire, saying it would be necessary if a ceasefire failed to allow thousands of refugees to be evacuated. Speaking in Paris, Mr Annan said armed intervention was only…

Office of the Spokesman The Department of State warns U.S. citizens to defer all travel to the following provinces of Zaire: North and South Kivu, Maniema, Haut-Zaire, Equateur, Shaba and Kasai Oriental. Many Americans in these regions have already departed. The…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org Subject: Great Lakes: IRIN Update 118 for 5 Mar 1997 97.3.5 (IRIN erroneously reported - on the basis of information given by Kinshasa - that…

KINDU, Zaire (Reuter) - Defeated Zairian soldiers surrendered their weapons to rebels in the eastern town of Kindu Wednesday and the rebel army was reported to be closing in on the strategic northeastern capital of Kisangani. Kindu, up the Zaire…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - The Zairean government has issued an expulsion order for United Nations and international NGOs personnel who evacuated on March 1 from their duty…

ZAIRE KINSHASA Out of four WFP staff that were threatened with expulsion from Zaire yesterday, three were planned to leave morning 6 March for Brazzaville while a fourth got permission to stay on. Four remaining International Staff of WFP, all in…

Refugees are on the move again in eastern Zaire as the Alliance of Democratic Forces for Liberation (ADFL) advances into Tingi-Tingi - the last of three major encampments in east central Zaire abandoned in the continuing war in a…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - The rebel Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL) is advancing on Kisangani from various fronts, report news agencies and…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org Journalists were yesterday flown by the Zairean army 150 kilometers west of Kisangani, where they met the head of the refugee column who fled…

by Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, Mar 4 (IPS) - Tens of thousands of Ruandan refugees are headed towards the city of Kisangani, in eastern Zaire, having abandonned the Tingi Tingi camp, announced the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Tuesday. The Tingi…