Rapports

News Service 243/96 AI INDEX: AFR 62/30/96 Amnesty International today released new evidence that "campaigns of terror" were being waged by Zairian military forces, militias and rebel forces against refugees and civilians in the South-Kivu region of Zaire at the very…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org Zaire named a new army chief yesterday as reports mounted of preparations for a counter-offensive against the rebels in eastern Zaire. Zairean television said…

KINSHASA, Zaire (PANA) - Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko appointed Lt. Gen. Mahele Bokungu Lieko as chief of staff Thursday, in a military leadership change designed to regain territory lost to anti-government forces in the eastern part of the…

(excerpt) Prepared by Central News Thurday Highlights DH/2232 Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has decided to send to Kinshasa, Zaire his Assistant Secretary-General Ibrahima Fall, Spokesman for the Secretary-General Sylvana Foa said. Mr. Fall, based in Geneva, has been asked to hold discussions with the Zairian…

The steady flow of returnees from Tanzania continues. UNHCR has now been allowed to enter the camps of Ngara and Karagwe On the Rwandan side, 200 trucks are constantly on the move to pick up the refugees from the…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org Zaire's President Mobutu, who returned to the country yesterday, said he had come back against medical advice to take personal charge of the situation.…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI -- Burundi is filled with ghost towns and ghost roads. One of them is Route 1. Once a major thoroughfare, the road, which stretches from the border with Rwanda…

Zaire's President Mobutu has vowed to rebuild his country during a speech delivered upon his return from a four-month absence for cancer treatment. Mr Mobutu was in the capital, Kinshasa, for the first time since an prostate cancer operation last…

The ICRC is providing assistance for almost 50,000 Rwandan and Burundian refugees who have gathered near the town of Shabunda, 200 km west of Bukavu. This temporary site deep in the forest is seeing several thousand new arrivals every…

ZAIRE: WFP started the airlift into Kisangani of 120 mt of food items using a Boeing 707 aircraft leased from a Zairean transporter. Today 80 mt of food commodities, including 20 mt of high-energy biscuits, are being airlifted into Kisangani.…