Rapports

"The crowd swelled with everybody shouting, 'Tutsi! Tutsi!' The young men were responding from the crowd, 'We will kill them! We will kill them!" -- Peter Muriuki, CARE Uvira Logisitc Officer October 25 -- Peter Muriuki, CARE Uvira Logistics Officer, is…

I am deeply saddened that once again you are on the roads fleeing for your lives. I am afraid this terrible situation may not stop immediately, and I would like you to know that we will do everything possible, in…

Geneva, 25 October 1996 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies plans to airlift emergency supplies into eastern Zaire this weekend, to provide assistance to up to 100,000 of nearly 250,000 Rwandan and Burundian refugees who fled…

New York -- Fifty thousand refugees have arrived in Bukavu, Zaire, fleeing fighting to the south. ACT, an interchurch aid coalition including Lutheran World Relief, is gearing up to meet minimum basic needs in the area. An airlift of…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees today urged Rwandan refugees caught in fighting in eastern Zaire to consider returning to Rwanda. High Commissioner Sadako Ogata, in a statement broadcast by local radio stations in the region, said she was "deeply…

Rwanda UNHCR has opened three reception centers in the Cyangugu region for those refugees who decide to return to Rwanda. These centers can handle 15,000 returnees per day. UNHCR and IOM have 120 trucks on hand to transport returnees to…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Shelling rocked the eastern Zairean city of Uvira as Tutsi rebels battled Zairean troops Friday and a European envoy warned a new genocide in Central Africa could be near. Rwandan Hutus fled to Zaire from their homeland…

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Liberia and Sierra Leone C) Iraq D) Afghanistan From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Mr. F. Strippoli or Mr. M. Crosthwaite, WFP…

From Segun Adeyemi ; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, United Nations (PANA) The United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the chairman of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), President Paul Biya of Cameroon, are worried by the tension in eastern Zaire,…

(excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS This document is prepared by the Central News Section of the Department of Public Information and is updated every week-day at approximately 6:00 PM. The World Food Programme has said that it intended to launch a limited airlift of…