Rapports

Red Cross Action The Red Cross continues to seek access to the more than one million refugees and an increasing number of internally displaced Zairians who are scattered over a widening area in eastern Zaire. The Red Cross has held…

November 14, 1996. Minneapolis -- The American Refugee Committees (ARC) Zaire crisis team is stockpiling medicine and other supplies to provide emergency assistance to thousands of suffering refugees uprooted by fighting and in desperate need of food, water, and medical…

Operations completed: 1. Airlift of 26.4 MT UNICEF urgent relief items from Copenhagen to Kampala/Uganda by Netherlands Airforce on 3 November 1996. 2. Four (4) airlifts with C-130 (60 MT of High Energy Biscuits) by the Belgium Airforce for WFP from…

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. 23 on Eastern Zaire (14 November 1996) Fierce fighting broke out around Goma overnight and continued today, raising fears that relief…

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. 22 on eastern Zaire Calls for a multinational force to intervene in eastern Zaire appear to have been answered, with the…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor MBUJI-MAYI, ZAIRE -- While students run wild in the streets of Kinshasa and soldiers loot their way across the country in retreat from the fallen East, Zaire has never seemed so vulnerable…

Community Aid Abroad welcomed today Canada's commitment to head a multinational military force to protect relief supplies into Eastern Zaire. The agency said Canada's decision had broken the international logjam and finally added urgency and global morality which has been…

ICRC News 96/45 Some Red Cross volunteers working in the Zairian town of Bukavu have not waited for government and international operations to get under way, but have taken matters into their own hands. In an admirable initiative, two Zairian…

Humanitarian Liaison Working Group =B0 Canada has become increasingly disturbed by the harrowing situation in eastern Zaire. =B0 For two years now, the situation of two million refugees across the border from Rwanda and Burundi has been increasingly…

The United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA) has provided support to World Food Programme (WFP) for the airlift by the Netherlands Air Force of 40MT of high energy biscuits from DHA Pisa Warehouse to Kampala (Uganda) where the…