Rapports

(FR) (Stands ready to authorize multinational force) (550) By Judy Aita USIA United Nations Correspondent UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council November 13 urged nations who will participate in the multinational force to provide humanitarian aid to more than a million…

(Agreement on a conceptual framework for a mission) (740) By Alexander M. Sullivan USIA White House Correspondent Washington -- President Clinton has given conditional approval for participation by U.S. troops in an international relief effort in Zaire, the White House said November…

KAMPALA, Nov 13 (Reuter) - A U.S. assessment team led by an army general arrived in Uganda's capital on Wednesday to investigate conditions for any U.S. involvement in a multinational force for Zaire. The team was expected to visit southwest Uganda,…

GOMA, Zaire (Nov 13, 1996 07:12 a.m. EST) - Rebels opened fire with anti-aircraft batteries and machineguns at a plane repeatedly flying over the eastern Zairian city of Goma on Wednesday. The rebels, saying they suspected it was carrying French…

Oxfam said tonight (13 November) that the multinational force must have a mandate to disarm the Hutu militia and former Rwandan Government Army. Without such a mandate the force will only deal with the symptoms and not the cause…

Refugees International welcomes the Canadian initiative to lead a multi-national force to relieve the humanitarian emergency in eastern Zaire, and the Administration decision to join in this effort. There is the most dire need for emergency assistance to 1.2 million…

KINSHASA (Reuter) - President Mobutu Sese Seko has thrown his weight behind moves to send home more than a million Hutu refugees caught at the center of warfare in eastern Zaire. Canada stepped forward Tuesday with an offer to lead…

Ed O'Loughlin, Special to The Christian Science Monitor GOMA, ZAIRE -- The first humanitarian aid to reach rebel-held eastern Zaire is trickling across the border, flowing into an empty football stadium and stagnating in the sun. On Nov. 11 and 12,…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - A meeting which was to be attended by parties to the dispute in Burundi initially scheduled for Thursday in Arusha, Tanzania, at the initiative of former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, has been postponed indefinitely, a government…

The decision of the UN Security Council to delay deployment of a multinational force into the Great Lakes region effectively signs the death warrants of thousands of people fleeing conflict in the area, according to Community Aid Abroad today. Executive…