Rapports

KASINDI, Zaire (Reuter) - Zairian rebels pushed north and west toward towns held by the army Thursday and Ugandan troops patrolled the streets of at least one Zairian town which they seized last week. Travelers arriving in the eastern Zairian town…

Owing to the deteriorating security situation ICRC delegates have evacuated both Kindu and Kisangani, eastern Zaire. In Kisangani, fighting broke out after members of the Zairian armed forces originating in Kivu started looting the town and clashed with local…

Sierra Leone's President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader Foday Sankoh signed a peace accord on 30 November in Abidjan, Ctte d'Ivoire, ending more than five years of civil war in Sierra Leone. The agreement called…

Tanzania announces plans to close camps for more than 535,000 Rwandan refugees by the end of the year; registration is expected to begin next week. UNHCR attempts to contain an upsurge of cholera cases in Tanzania's Kigoma region. DEVELOPMENTS TANZANIA 1. The…

Eastern Zaire The Zairean Prime Minister called for the rapid deployment of an international force to assist "a million Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire" at the 19th Franco-African Summit in Burkina Faso yesterday. He also stated that Zaire was completely opposed to…

ICRC News No.48 From 28 to 30 November the ICRC visited 129 Sierra Leoneans held captive by members of the United Liberation Movement of Alhaji Kromah (ULIMO-K). During the visit, which took place in Bopolu, in the district of Lofa,…

ACT preparing for influx from Tanzania Geneva, December 5 (16.30 CET), 1996 Tanzanian authorities late today announced that Rwandan refugees would have to return by the end of this month. The Tanzanians also stated that they would not send anybody…

SC/6299* The Security Council this afternoon warmly welcomed the Peace Agreement signed by the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, on 30 November 1996, and expressed the hope that the Agreement would encourage those…

Not an official document UVIRA: A UN/NGO team (WFP, UNHCR, DHA, UNICEF, MSF, ICRC and IRC) visited Uvira on 3 December to conduct a brief assessment. The team met with the de facto authorities and were able to visit the town.…

DATE=12/4/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-207030 TITLE=ZAIRE REBELS (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=KIGALI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: REBELS IN EASTERN ZAIRE SAY THEY ARE PUSHING TOWARD THE COUNTRY'S DIAMOND MINES. V-O-A'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS THE REBELS SAY THEY HAVE OPENED ANOTHER FRONT IN THEIR WAR AGAINST THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. TEXT: IF…