Rapports

By TINA SUSMAN Associated Press Writer YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) - Rwanda's president accused U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali today of betraying Africa during Rwanda's genocide and urged leaders to support another African candidate to head the world body. On the final day of…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0190 1. GOVT OF DJIBOUTI ISSUED APPEAL FOR INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE TO DROUGHT VICTIMS. SITUATION 2. SINCE FEB 1996, DJIBOUTI HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY DROUGHT, CAUSED BY LACK OF RAIN FOR OVER TWO YEARS. SITUATION WAS FURTHER AGGRAVATED BY…

By KARIN DAVIES Associated Press Writer LOKICHOKIO, Kenya (AP) -- A cargo plane roars up from the runway, above sunburned foreigners and nomadic cattle herders, to carry food to the famished victims of Sudan's civil war. Lokichokio, an odd boom town in…

From Peter Mwaura; PANA Staff Correspondent YAOUNDE, Cameroon (PANA) - The OAU's outgoing Chairman and Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, has said Burundi is currently the most worrying and most urgent conflict in Africa. "There has been no conflict in…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) RWANDA - Complex Emergency Note: The last situation report was dated March 18, 1996. Overview On April 6, 1994, a mysterious plane crash in Kigali, the…

by the Africa Faith and Justice Network Washington, DC - The situation in Zaire has become more critical and more complicated in the last few months. Fierce fighting has broken out in Masisi, one of the most fertile areas in…

By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- American and U.N. officials advised Americans in Rwanda on Friday to take extra precautions after a shadowy rebel group announced rewards for killing U.S. citizens.The Hutu group, People in Arms for…

by A Correspondent Nairobi - Burundi appears to be heading towards political deadlock with East African regional leaders over coming deployment of an African military force to stabilise the war-torn central African nation. Regional leaders see the military force as a peacekeeping…

Kigali - Killings of Rwandan witnesses to the 1994 genocide are on the increase, and totalled 48 people between January and May this year alone, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement here on June…

DATE=8/7/96 TITLE=RWANDA / REFUGEES (S ONLY) BYLINE=CHRIS TOMLINSON DATELINE=KIGALI INTRO: RWANDAN REFUGEES LIVING IN BURUNDI ARE CONTINUING TO RETURN HOME IN RECORD NUMBERS. CHRIS TOMLINSON IN KIGALI REPORTS U-N OFFICIALS ARE OPTIMISTIC THE REPATRIATION WILL CONTINUE. TEXT: THE U-N REFUGEE AGENCY REPORTS THAT MORE THAN…