Rapports

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Hundreds of thousands of refugees and local Zaireans fleeing ethnic fighting in eastern Zaire are threatened with hunger and disease, aid agencies warned on Wednesday in the city of Bukavu. They said Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees…

From Ghion Hagos; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - The secretary-general of the Organisation of Africa Unity, Salim Ahmed Salim, said Wednesday he was gravely concerned by the fighting in eastern Zaire, particularly in South Kivu province, and…

October 23 -- Warehouses in Bukavu, Zaire, hold enough food to last three to six days while every hour about a thousand refugees reach the camps desperate for food and shelter. About 50,000 people are expected to arrive today…

WHAT: Today, a WFP Buffalo aircraft plus an ICRC aircraft evacuated all expatriate aid workers from Uvira. UNHCR gives a figure of 58 passengers. They cannot confirm the names of passengers but indicate that ALL expatriate aid workers were…

Uvira refugees approaching Bukavu at a rate of 700 per hour Geneva, 22. October, 96: Aid workers at a field hospital in Nyangezi, Eastern Zaire, report that approximately 700 refugees per hour are passing their hospital. The refugees are…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the plight of Burundi and Rwandan refugees forced to flee their camps in eastern Zaire in the face of intensified ethnic fighting. "I am deeply worried by…

The World Food Programme will attempt to evacuate stranded United Nations and NGO personnel on Tuesday following a last minute decision by Zairean authorities to allow a WFP-chartered aircraft to fly into strife-torn Uvira in eastern Zaire. The number of…

N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 441125 Fax: +254 2 448816 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 31 in a series of weekly reports from IRIN…

KIGALI (Reuter) - The United Nations has started to evacuate humanitarian staff from eastern Zaire, where government troops are battling Banyamulenge ethnic Tutsis, the head of the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) in Rwanda said Monday. Omar Bakhet told Reuters the…

GENEVA (Reuter) - The U.N. refugee agency Monday reported fresh troubles in east Zaire's Goma region while nearly 250,000 Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees fled camps in nearby Uvira amid fighting between troops and rebels. The Geneva-based UNHCR said it had…