Rapports

KIGALI, Rwanda (Reuter) - A Rwandan court sentenced two Rwandan Hutus to death Friday for genocide and crimes against humanity, delivering the first death penalties for the 1994 slaughter of some 800,000 people. State-run radio said Deogratias Bizimana, a former medical…

Thursday January 2 8:46 AM EST KIGALI (Reuter) - Rwandan authorities have arrested as genocide suspects more than 2,500 Hutus who were among some 460,000 refugees who returned home from Tanzania last month, the U.N. human rights office said on…

DATE=1/1/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-208123 TITLE=SUDAN / POLITICS (L-ONLY) BYLINE=LAURIE KASSMAN DATELINE=CAIRO CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: SUDANESE OPPOSITION LEADERS ARE MEETING IN CAIRO -- WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS -- TO SEEK SUPPORT IN THEIR FIGHT TO TOPPLE THE ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT OF COLONEL OMAR AL-BESHIR. THE…

HR/96/79 31 December 1996 HUMAN RIGHTS OBSERVERS IN RWANDA: RETURN OF REFUGEES FROM TANZANIA AND ZAIRE MARKED BY TENSIONS Refugees facing arrests upon repatriation; death threats issued to those attempting to reclaim property Human rights observers from the United Nations Field…

A weekly report on major developments concerning relief operations in southern Sudan. MEASLES VACCINATIONS IN WESTERN UPPER NILE... More than 920 children have been vaccinated against measles in Wicok, western Upper Nile, following an outbreak of the disease in mid-December. The emergency…

Malaria Control Efforts in Upper Nile A consultant from the Federal Malaria Administration together with the UNICEF- Malakal health coordinator, visited Detang, Wau Shuluk, Obwar and Bukeng to assess the status of malaria in these locations. A total of 1000…

From Ali Dellali; PANA Correspondent TRIPOLI, Libya (PANA) - Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi has begun consultations with the leaders of five east and central African states currently embroiled in the fighting between Tutsi and Hutu communities in the Great Lakes…

UNAVEM III MISSION MANDATE FUNCTION: Established to assist the Government of Angola and the Uni=E3o Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) in restoring peace and achieving national reconciliation on the basis of the Peace Accords for Angola, signed on 31…

The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH)1996 in Review ... 1996 saw the humanitarian situation in Angola improve dramatically with the opening of road routes…

LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - Zambian authorities have registered 239 Zairean refugees who fled the ongoing fighting between the national army and Tutsi rebels in the country's east. Zairean refugees have been arriving in Zambia since July when fighting erupted in…