Rapports

(Excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced in Geneva on Tuesday that it had stopped its activities in Burundi. UNHCR said it ceased its activities in the Chibitoke region in the far north-western part of Burundi, after…

GENERAL After months of negotiation, ousted former president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya moved out of the US ambassador's residence where he had lived since he was overthrown by President Buyoya last July. Ntibantunganya moved into his own well-guarded residence overlooking Lake Tanganyika. After…

(Excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The Secretary-General's Special Representative for Angola Alioune Blondin Beye received assurances of cooperation from UNITA leader Dr. Jonas Savimbi in Bailundo a UN announced on Tuesday. UN Spokesman Fred Eckhard said these renewed assurances, given during the meeting in…

FUNDING PRIORITIES IN ANGOLA 1997 Vol. 5 Troika members contribute US$ 6 million towards UN Consolidated Appeal: The Republic of Portugal and the United States endorsed a US$ 6 million contribution towards the 1997 UN Inter-agency Consolidated…

DATE=6/9/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-215486 TITLE=RWANDA VIOLENCE (L-ONLY) BYLINE=DIANNA CAHN DATELINE=RUHENGERI, RWANDA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: REBELS IN THE NORTH AND WEST OF RWANDA HAVE BEEN STEPPING UP ATTACKS IN A GUERRILLA WAR AIMED AT TOPPLING RWANDA'S GOVERNMENT. REPORTS OF VIOLENT INCIDENTS ARE INCREASING, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE…

Somalia ( 4 June 1997). Data on the epidemic continue to be received from NGOs and through the WHO office in Mogadishu. The cumulative number of cases reported is now 5557 with 247 deaths (CFR 4.4%), but the real…

Ferdinand Bigumandondera, PANA Correspondent BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Previously the preserve of men, the Burundian National Gendarmerie, the military police, has trained 1,000 women in three months for police and traffic duty. Women began appearing in the streets of the capital…

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has donated 9,550 metric tonnes of food aid to Tanzania to be distributed to needy people in places facing food shortage. Sources in the Prime Minister's Office told the…

Excerpt) Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Burundi, and Tanzania C) Sudan D) Angola E) Sierra Leone F) Iraq. From P. Ares, Chief,…