Rapports

At the invitation of President Daniel T. arap Moi, Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Frederick Chiluba of Zambia, Pasteur Bizimungu of Rwanda, Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea, Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and Ferdinand Oyono, Minister…

GOMA: Unconfirmed reports indicate that the population of Mugunga camp is moving west towards Sake. However, it seems that the population is moving in search of water rather than a planned displacement further inside Zaire. BUKAVU and Uvira: No further information since…

At a Glance Assistant High Commissioner Sergio Vieira de Mello meets with senior officials during his 24-hour visit to Kigali on the first stop of a trip to Rwanda and Zaire to secure support for the opening of humanitarian return…

(See also Zaire Crisis) Our last radio contact with the camps around Goma was Saturday morning. In other words, hundreds of thousands of refugees have been effectively off the screen for three days now, and as things stand we have…

NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuter) - African leaders urged the United Nations Security Council Tuesday rapidly to deploy a "neutral force" in eastern Zaire to help 1.2 million Hutu refugees facing famine and epidemics. After a four-hour summit in the Kenyan capital, seven…

GOMA, Zaire (Nov 5, 1996 5:18 p.m. EST) Red Cross workers Tuesday collected some of more than 400 bodies of people killed in battles for the eastern Zairean city of Goma, now almost entirely under rebel control. Andre Kissasse Ngandu,…

UNITED NATIONS (Nov 5, 1996 5:18 p.m. EST) - Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Zaire have been amply supplied with arms from Europe and South Africa, with organizers of the illicit traffic based in Kenya, said a U.N. report…

BRUSSELS, Belgium (Nov 5, 1996 5:18 p.m. EST) - Europe, virtually paralysed by indifference, came under renewed pressure Tuesday to act to help more than one million refugees in eastern Zaire, the victims of central Africa's latest bout of…

Red Cross Action Gravely concerned about the unknown fate of approximately one million refugees displaced in Eastern Zaire, the Red Cross seeks access to the large numbers who are reported to be moving westward further into Zaire. Access to the…

(Burns reiterates call for cease-fire) (830) WASHINGTON -- The United States "strongly supports" mediation efforts regarding the crisis in Eastern Zaire, has sent its Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to the region to "take the lead in preparing for U.S. relief…