Rwanda
SG/SM/6109 IHA/610 18 November 1996 Following is the Statement of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the launch of the United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Flash Appeal for the Great Lakes region in response to the crisis in eastern Zaire, in New York,…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 35 in a series of weekly reports from…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Not an official document GOMA: Movement of people towards and across the border continues. A reported 200,000 people had crossed into Rwanda by 18:00 on 16 November. Many more, who were approaching the border, are expected to cross today. Following…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 27 on Eastern Zaire (16-17 November 1996) As thousands of people resumed their trek across the border into Rwanda this morning,…
Rwanda
Refugees Are Malnourished, Fatigued, Suffering from Exposure November 17, 1996. Minneapolis -- The American Refugee Committee is establishing and operating 31 emergency assistance centers to assist repatriating Rwandan refugees, many of whom are in poor health following three weeks of life-threatening…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
By Peter Smerdon GISENYI, Rwanda, Nov 17 (Reuter) - More refugees flooded across the border from eastern Zaire into this small Rwandan border town on Sunday -- the third day of a human wave which showed no sign of slowing…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 26 on Eastern Zaire (15-16 November 1996) One hundred thousand people have so far crossed the border at Gisenyi as of…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
From Segun Adeyemi ; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, United Nations (PANA) The United Nations says it is still necessary to send a multinational force to eastern Zaire to provide humanitarian relief to refugees despite the return to Rwanda of thousands…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Communiqué de Presse (1/161196) Kinshasa, le 16 novembre 1996 1. La Belgique vient en aide à la poplation zaïroise affectée par les événements graves qui se sont produits dans l'Est du Zaïre. Le 17 novembre,…
Rwanda
AI IDEX: AFR 02/25/96 News Service 218/96 KIGALI -- In the context of the rapidly evolving human tragedy in eastern Zaire, an Amnesty International delegation currently in Kigali and led by the organization~s Secretary General Pierre Sane called on the international…
