Rapports

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Zairean troops beat up two U.N. staffers after television reports claimed that U.N. agencies were helping armed Rwandan soldiers infiltrate the country, U.N. sources said Monday. U.N. officials denied the Zairian television report, broadcast last weekend, and…

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- A bus full of relief workers hit a land mine as it traveled to a camp for Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire, killing two people and injuring 34, relief groups said Sunday. The victims of the…

GENEVA, Sept 3 (Reuter) - United Nations census takers at crowded Rwandan Hutu refugee camps in Zaire faced a boycott by refugees who feared indelible ink used on them for registration might make them sterile or help to identify…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network PO Box 30218, Nairobi. Tel: +254 2 441125 Fax: +254 2 448816 E-mail: irin@dha.unon.org INTRODUCTION This report describes developments in Masisi, Rutshuru and…

Depuis deux ans, Katia Hosting sillonne sans cesse l'Afrique centrale, et notamment le Zaïre, comme consultante pour l'organisation de défense des droits de l'homme Human Rights Watch. A chacune de mes visites, explique-t-elle, je trouve les villes plus délabrées. Cela…

U 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 INTRODUCTION This week the UNHCR and its humanitarian partners on Idjwi Island…

Correction: IRIN Burundi Refugee Update, 1 August 1996 We apologize for an error in yesterday's Burundi Refugee Update. The new arrivals in Uvira over the last two months total about 15,000, not 50,000 as stated. We are pleased to offer…

Two years after the genocide in Rwanda, Human Rights Watch and FIDH (Federation Internationale des Droits de l'Homme) charge the Zairian government with complicity in the ethnic violence in North Kivu in eastern Zaire, which has forced most of…

Rwanda's Exiles Spread Their Terror EVEN BY Africa's usual standards of strife, the first half of 1996 has been filled with disturbing news. Renewed civil war in Liberia. Worsening violence in Burundi. More fighting among warlords in Somalia, accompanied by deepening…

U 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.unep.org This is number 16 in a series of…