Rapports

Status report as at 14 May 1996 During the night of 11-12 May, seventeen detainees died in a local detention centre at Kivumu Commune, Kibuye Prefecture. Another five detainees died on 11 and 12 May in a second local detention…

DATE=5/16/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-197305 TITLE=ZAIRE / VIOLENCE (L ONLY) BYLINE=CHRIS TOMLINSON DATELINE=KIGALI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: HUTUS ARMED WITH ASSAULT RIFLES AND MACHETES HAVE ATTACKED A CHURCH IN EASTERN ZAIRE WHERE HUNDREDS OF FRIGHTENED TUTSIS HAD SOUGHT REFUGE. CHRIS TOMLINSON IN KIGALI REPORTS AID WORKERS SAY AT…

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 Security Council has expressed concern at the continued deterioration of the security situation in Burundi.…

Washington, DC - Text of prepared statement on Burundi by Anthony Lake, President Clinton's national security adviser on May 14, following talks with top government officials and representatives of local and international organizations in Bujumbura. Lake's itinerary also includes Kigali,…

Following the recent intensification of the civil conflict in Bubanza and Cibitoke provinces in northwestern Burundi, an upsurge in the number of refugees moving across the border into Zaire has been reported. UNHCR now estimates that approximately 23,000 refugees have…

Original in: /HRNET/AFRICA DEBRA@OLN.comlink.apc.org date : 11.03.96 -------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Sudan Human Rights Practices, 1995 Author: U.S. Department of State Date: March 1996 SUDAN After the 1989 coup that overthrew Sudan's democratically elected government, the military assumed power under Lt. General Omar Hassan Al- Bashir and…

By Christian Jennings BUJUMBURA, May 13 (Reuter) - Humanitarian sources in Burundi said on Monday more than 375 people, most or all Hutus, were massacred on May 3 in the northern village of Kivyuka. The Tutsi-dominated army said last week it…

Rectification: Two errors were made in the last report regarding the status and activities of Action Contre la Faim. First, it was incorrectly reported that Action Contre la Faim was terminating its nutrition programmes in the refugee camps due to…

This is number 8 in a series of weekly reports from IRIN on general developments in the Great Lakes region. Sources for the information below include UN, NGO, ICRC and media reports. IRIN issues these reports for the benefit…

Rising violence in Burundi has brought fears of a genocide to rival Rwanda's in 1994. Neighbouring Tanzania is worried that another refugee flood might suddenly pour over its border. Now, reports Gemini News Service, Tanzanian elder statesman Julius Nyerere has…