Rapports

Please note that this will be the last Oxfam UK/I Information Update on central Africa in 1996. Hopefully the next one will appaer in the first days of 1997. Note : in the parts of this report…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) GREAT LAKES - Complex Emergency Note: The last situation report was dated December 19, 1996. New information is underlined. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org INTRODUCTION This paper gives a brief overview of food supply and food security issues in Kenya, Rwanda, eastern Zaire, Uganda, Burundi, and Tanzania, drawing on…

Repatriation from Tanzania continues. The number of arrests in Rwanda is increasing, mainly in the prefecture of Kibungo where the majority of the refugees are coming from. The majority of refugees from Ngara district have returned. The Karagwe camps are…

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.63 on the Great Lakes (Friday 20 December 1996) According to unconfirmed reports, President Mobutu is slated to return imminently to Europe.…

Co-ordinating Office Action by Churches Together (ACT) is a worldwide network of Churches and their related agencies meeting human need through co-ordinated emergency response and common identity. The ACT network is organizationally based in the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and…

The Consolidated Great Lakes report is a compilation of information from the following sources: USG cables; U.N., IO, and NGO situation reports; press clips; and USG departments, bureaus, and offices. The date and source of each entry are noted,…

Tanzania Five refugee camps in Karagwe district are reported to be empty. Any remaining refugees in the camps this morning will now have to walk to the Rusumo border with Rwanda; a distance of some 160km. Only four-five way- stations…

KINSHASA, Zaire (PANA) - Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko appointed Lt. Gen. Mahele Bokungu Lieko as chief of staff Thursday, in a military leadership change designed to regain territory lost to anti-government forces in the eastern part of the…

Operations completed: 1. One (1) airlift of 26.4 MT UNICEF urgent relief items from Copenhagen to Kampala/Uganda by Netherlands Airforce on 3 November 1996. 2. Four (4) airlifts with C-130 (60 MT of High Energy Biscuits) by the Belgium Airforce for…