Rapports

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org ICRC said its team in eastern Zaire, which was forced to evacuate Kindu and Kisangani last week because of insecurity, managed to fly to…

Jennifer Ludden, Special to The Christian Science Monitor KINSHASA, ZAIRE -- As Eastern Zaire's upstart rebels continue to gain territory at a remarkably fast pace, it is becoming harder to dismiss the possibility that sub-Saharan Africa's largest nation may be…

Not an official document EASTERN ZAIRE: A UN team, consisting of WFP, UNHCR and UNICEF representatives, visited the Uvira area over the weekend and returned to Bukavu 9 December. Access to the port was denied as was access to Fizi for…

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…

On 10 December, the international human rights day, the international community should support the daily and determined struggle of human rights defenders in Zaire, Amnesty International said today. South-Kivu region's capital, Bukavu which has become since 1990 the home to a…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated December 5, 1996. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi of Rwandan origin, settled in the…

Rebel-held territory in eastern Zaire appears to comprise a strip some 550km long along the the border with Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. Reports suggest that the Zairean army have fled further west from Bunia to Isiro and that the…

Note : in the parts of this report referring to the external context and the programme, "Oxfam" refers to OUK/I, as the lead Oxfam for this emergency. In other parts, different members of Oxfam International 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. 52 on eastern Zaire (9 December 1996) WFP and UNHCR report that some 15,000 refugees have left the Kagenyi and Rubwere…

The prospects for a multinational military force in eastern Zaire have been further dimmed by comments by its commander. Lieutenant-General Maurice Baril has suggested there's NO longer any need for foreign troops. During an evaluation mission in eastern Zaire, he said…