Rapports

Background The latest developments in the unfolding drama in the Great Lakes region point toward the bleakest scenario of all: widespread conflict in a region which is home to more than one million refugees. Enormous population movements have already been…

BUJUMBURA (Reuter) - The leader of rebel forces in eastern Zaire said he was calling a three-week unilateral ceasefire (starting at 1500 GMT Monday) to allow refugees to leave for home. But Laurent Kabila, head of the Alliance of Democratic Forces…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org From today, IRIN will try to provide twice-daily updates on the evolving situation in Eastern Zaire. Feedback is welcome. IRIN Emergency Update No. 5 on…

Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders USA Aims to Prevent Further Human Catastrophe Today the international emergency relief agency Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres called for an immediate international/UN…

An unprecedented human tragedy is unfolding in eastern Zaire. Hundreds of thousands of victims - displaced Zairians, Rwandan refugees and Burundian refugees - are caught up in a raging conflict and have been left without any form of protection…

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…

NOTE TO THE SPOKESMAN Given the full-blown complex emergency which is arising out of the ongoing hostilities in Eastern Zaire, USG Yasushi Akashi, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, is dispatching today the head of his Office in Geneva, Mr. Martin Griffiths,…

emergency appeal no. 01.02/96 period covered: 01-03 November 1996 EMERGENCY REPORT - KIVU CRISIS Latest events Goma The day of Friday November 1st was one of extreme tension as over 100 expatriate aid workers, including eleven Federation delegates, were caught for hours…

GENEVA (Reuter) - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata Sunday appealed for urgent action to open "emergency lifelines" to well over a million people fleeing fighting in eastern Zaire. In a statement issued from the Geneva headquarters of her…

Ogata urges emergency lifelines to refugees and displaced people in Zaire The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called Sunday for the urgent opening of emergency lifelines to more than 1.2 million Burundi and Rwandan refugees and tens of thousands of…