Rapports

1. Great Lakes The High Commissioner is to travel to the Great Lakes region on 6th-15th February. She will be visiting Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Zaire for talks with senior government officials. She will be using her visit to…

Tuesday, 14 January 1997: UNICEF has expressed deep concern over the deteriorating condition of Rwandan refugees and internally displaced people sheltering in the Lubutu area, 170 kilometres southeast of Kisangani, in eastern Zaire. Recent reports reveal an alarming increase in…

14 January 1997, Paris. The situation is catastrophic for more than 100 000 Rwandan refugees at Tingi Tingi and Amissi Camps (200km from Kisangani, near Lubut) in Upper Zaire. Most of the refugees walked for weeks following the Banyamulenge…

*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…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KISANGANI, ZAIRE -- On a recent morning in this river town in Zaire, a local businessman decided to fly to the capital, Kinshasa. There were a few problems, however. He couldn't go…

ZAIRE Situation in Bukavu The number of refugees gathered in the hills behind Bukavu and who have asked to repatriate has grown to over 11,000 during the last few days. They are located in two different places : Bunyakiri, 80kms…

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…