Rapports

*97011403.AAF (FR) (Condemns slaying of 221 returnees in Burundi) (440) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is "shocked and dismayed" by the killing of 122 Burundi refugees by Burundi security forces January…

JANUARY 1997 The crisis in Sudan is escalating on a number of fronts: - The civil war continues to deepen: - Human rights violations continue unabated; - Reports of slavery are proliferating; - The government maintains its regional destabilization agenda; - Terrorists are…

HR/97/4 13 January 1997 HUMAN RIGHTS FIELD OPERATION IN BURUNDI CONDEMNS MASSACRE OR RETURNEES BY SOLDIERS The United Nations Human Rights Field Operation in Burundi has confirmed that a number of Burundian refugees returning from Tanzania were killed on Friday evening by…

13 January, 1997 Nairobi, Kenya The following Press Statement is attributable to Martin Griffiths, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region. The regional embargo on Burundi declared on July 31, 1996 continues to impose severe restrictions on the ability of…

NAIROBI, Jan 13 (Reuter) - Sanctions imposed on Burundi by regional leaders to punish a coup have severely cut humanitarian assistance and threaten the entire relief effort in the tiny Central African country, a U.N. official said on Monday. ''The…

SG/SM/6142 The following statement was issued today by the Acting Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General was shocked to learn of another massacre by the Burundi Army, on 10 January, of 122 Burundi refugees returning from the United Republic…

DATELINE ACT Great lakes region No 12 ACTions in Great Lakes Region - January 1997 Geneva, January 13, 1997 With 1,300,582 people (UNHCR figure) returning to Rwanda since mid-November, much of ACT International's attention is now focused on assisting returnees in their home…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No.77 on the Great Lakes (Saturday-Monday 11-13 January 1997) - Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army has admitted killing 126 Hutu refugees on Friday who…

By Lesley Wroughton LUANDA, Jan 13 (Reuter) - Britain's Princess Diana arrived in the Angolan capital Luanda on Monday as part of a four-day private visit to boost a Red Cross campaign to ban the use of landmines. Diana arrived at…

NOTE: The Consolidated Great Lakes Report is a compilation of information from the following sources: USG cables; U.N., IO, and NGO situation reports; press clips; and USG departments, bureaus, and offices. The date and source of each entry are…