Rapports

ICRC News 96/45 Some Red Cross volunteers working in the Zairian town of Bukavu have not waited for government and international operations to get under way, but have taken matters into their own hands. In an admirable initiative, two Zairian…

Community Aid Abroad welcomed today Canada's commitment to head a multinational military force to protect relief supplies into Eastern Zaire. The agency said Canada's decision had broken the international logjam and finally added urgency and global morality which has been…

Humanitarian Liaison Working Group =B0 Canada has become increasingly disturbed by the harrowing situation in eastern Zaire. =B0 For two years now, the situation of two million refugees across the border from Rwanda and Burundi has been increasingly…

The United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA) has provided support to World Food Programme (WFP) for the airlift by the Netherlands Air Force of 40MT of high energy biscuits from DHA Pisa Warehouse to Kampala (Uganda) where the…

(FR) (Stands ready to authorize multinational force) (550) By Judy Aita USIA United Nations Correspondent UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council November 13 urged nations who will participate in the multinational force to provide humanitarian aid to more than a million…

(Agreement on a conceptual framework for a mission) (740) By Alexander M. Sullivan USIA White House Correspondent Washington -- President Clinton has given conditional approval for participation by U.S. troops in an international relief effort in Zaire, the White House said November…

KAMPALA, Nov 13 (Reuter) - A U.S. assessment team led by an army general arrived in Uganda's capital on Wednesday to investigate conditions for any U.S. involvement in a multinational force for Zaire. The team was expected to visit southwest Uganda,…

GOMA, Zaire (Nov 13, 1996 07:12 a.m. EST) - Rebels opened fire with anti-aircraft batteries and machineguns at a plane repeatedly flying over the eastern Zairian city of Goma on Wednesday. The rebels, saying they suspected it was carrying French…

Oxfam said tonight (13 November) that the multinational force must have a mandate to disarm the Hutu militia and former Rwandan Government Army. Without such a mandate the force will only deal with the symptoms and not the cause…

Refugees International welcomes the Canadian initiative to lead a multi-national force to relieve the humanitarian emergency in eastern Zaire, and the Administration decision to join in this effort. There is the most dire need for emergency assistance to 1.2 million…