Rapports

BURUNDI, RWANDA, TANZANIA, UGANDA & ZAIRE: RWANDAN AND BURUNDIAN REFUGEES emergency appeal no. 01.02/96 situation report no. 13 period covered: 07-11 November 1996 EMERGENCY REPORT - KIVU CRISIS Introductory note As requested by various parties, here follows a brief description of the Federation's…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Tutsi rebels controlling a swathe of eastern Zaire have agreed to open up a humanitarian corridor to enable relief workers to reach Hutu refugees trapped and scattered by fighting in the area. Relief groups in Rwanda,…

KIGALI, Rwanda (Reuter) - Foreign aid workers reached the eastern Zairean city of Goma Monday with emergency medical and food supplies and a U.N. team entered the Zairean town of Bukavu to the south. Samantha Bolton, spokeswoman for Medecins sans Frontieres…

REGIONAL: WFP has prepositioned approximately 100 tons of high-energy biscuits in Kampala from WFP emergency stocks in Pisa, Italy. This emergency stock is in preparation for a possible airlift/airdrop. KINSHASA: Reports of up to 60,000 refugees and/or internally-displaced persons heading towards Kisangani…

November 4 -- With over a million refugees on the move, CARE is deploying logistics, health and water specialists to central Africa in an attempt to head off a potential humanitarian disaster. The specialists will search for supply routes…

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. 16 on Eastern Zaire (11 November 1996) UN agencies have crossed the border into Eastern Zaire from Rwanda with limited medical…

November 6, 1996 -- CARE, the largest international relief and development organization, is preparing to help Rwandan refugees if they move back to Rwanda. This may take the form of: waystations transportation food Once refugees arrive home, they will face many…

1. Operations completed: 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 High Energy Biscuits) by the Belgium Airforce for…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 34 in a series of weekly reports from…

FLORENCE, Italy (Nov 9, 1996 11:54 p.m. EST) - France, Italy, Spain and Portugal constituted a joint rapid reaction force on Saturday for future use on humanitarian and peacekeeping missions in conflicts like the one now devastating eastern Zaire. Defence…