Rapports

The ICRC is providing assistance for almost 50,000 Rwandan and Burundian refugees who have gathered near the town of Shabunda, 200 km west of Bukavu. This temporary site deep in the forest is seeing several thousand new arrivals every…

ZAIRE: WFP started the airlift into Kisangani of 120 mt of food items using a Boeing 707 aircraft leased from a Zairean transporter. Today 80 mt of food commodities, including 20 mt of high-energy biscuits, are being airlifted into Kisangani.…

A World Food Programme-chartered cargo aircraft arrived Wednesday in Kisangani bringing 38.5 metric tons of urgently needed relief food supplies for Rwandan and Burundian refugess recently arrived in Lubutu, eastern Zaire. It was the first of three flights, which will bring…

The humanitarian situation in Shabunda, a settlement about mid-way between Bukavu and Kindu, is slowly becoming critical. ICRC activities are hampered by poor infrastructure, heavy rains and difficult access to the refugee site. Relief supplies are flown to Kindu from…

ZAIRE: Philippe Duamelle confirms that the situation of the Rwandan refugees in and around Lubutu in North Kivu is absolutely dramatic. UNICEF ZAIRE Programme Coordinator Philippe Duamelle is still in Lubutu in North Kivu, about 170 km southeast of Kisangani and 220/250…

BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated December 12, 1996. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi of Rwandan origin, settled in the Mulenge hills of South Kivu,…

The humanitarian situation in Shabunda, a settlement about mid-way between Bukavu and Kindu, is slowly becoming critical. ICRC activities are hampered by poor infrastructure, heavy rains and difficult access to the refugee site. Relief supplies are flown to Kindu from…

Refugees continue to walk from the camps from Ngara towards the Rwandan border, however heavy rains slowed down their movement. Zairean refugees in Kigoma refuse to be transferred. Rwanda started the registration of the new arrivals. DEVELOPMENTS TANZANIA Ngara: In the afternoon, 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 IRIN Emergency Update No.60 on the Great Lakes (Tuesday 17 December 1996) A regional summit in Nairobi to discuss the situation in the Great Lakes…

From Sam Mugo; PANA Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Outside help alone will not lead to a durable solution in the Great Lakes region, Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi told heads of state gathered in Nairobi Monday for a…