Rapports

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Burundian President, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, on Thursday again condemned the idea of partitioning the country between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority as the ultimate solution to the ethnic crisis in the country. "The seriousness of…

(No. 16 ACC/SCN, Geneva, 20 June 1996)(extracts) Burundi/Rwanda/Eastern Zaire Region: With the exception of Burundi and the newlydisplaced from Eastern Zaire, the nutritional situation in the region appears to be stable. The escalation of violence in Burundi is now affecting…

Thursday, 20 June 1996: The Rwandan Government will release about 400 children from prisons soon into a juvenile re-education centre at Gitagata, 40 kilometres south of the capital Kigali, according to Dan Toole, UNICEF Representative in Rwanda. The Minister of…

CAIRO, June 20 (Reuter) - Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Osman Mohammad Taha arrived in Cairo...Thursday morning and said the Arab summit this weekend would be a good chance for reconciliation with Egypt. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is expected to attend…

FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL NGOs WORKING IN RWANDA and NGOs PARTICIPATING IN THE 1996 ROUND TABLE. The NGOs call upon donors at the Round Table to pledge and disburse funds that are sufficient and appropriate to support Rwanda…

By Elif Kaban KIGALI, June 20 (Reuter) - Rwanda on Thursday began issuing new passports to deal a blow to its extremist Hutu enemies in exile by rendering thousands of old passports they hold worthless and effectively denying them citizenship. Deputy…

(FR) (6/20 press briefing in Geneva) (4420) GENEVA -- Ambassador Richard W. Bogosian, U.S. special coordinator for Rwanda and Burundi, says the international community is trying to determine which measures might "minimize the catastrophe" should the continuing violence in Burundi…

Washington - Statement by U.S. State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns on June 19 condemning killing in Burundi of civilians near Kibimba, three International Committee of the Red Cross workers near Cibitoke, a nun in Gitega: The United States vehemently condemns the…

Sudan The nutritional and health situation of the displaced populations around Greater Khartoum continues to deteriorate; under-five mortality rates of 4/10,000/day (13x normal) are reported with malnutrition considered a primary cause. This is attributed to the…