Rapports

1. 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 High Energy Biscuits) by the Belgium Airforce for…

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 34 in a series of weekly reports from…

FLORENCE, Italy (Nov 9, 1996 11:54 p.m. EST) - France, Italy, Spain and Portugal constituted a joint rapid reaction force on Saturday for future use on humanitarian and peacekeeping missions in conflicts like the one now devastating eastern Zaire. Defence…

Press Release SC/6287 SECURITY COUNCIL WELCOMES MULTINATIONAL FORCE PROPOSAL FOR EASTERN ZAIRE, URGES MEMBER STATES TO ARRANGE FOR HUMANITARIAN AID DELIVERY Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1078 (1996), Council Also Requests Secretary-General to Prepare Framework for Humanitarian Task Force The Security Council, meeting early Saturday morning,…

S/RES/1078 (1996) Adopted by the Security Council at its 3710th meeting, on 9 November 1996 The Security Council, Gravely concerned at the deteriorating situation in the Great Lakes region, in particular eastern Zaire, and at the effect of the continued fighting on…

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. 15 on Eastern Zaire (8-9 November 1996) UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called yesterday (Friday) for a multinational force to "stabilise the…

DATE=11/9/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205953 TITLE=REWANDA REFUGEES (L ONLY) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=GISENYI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: RWANDAN REFUGEES ARE RETURNING FROM EASTERN ZAIRE SATURDAY. VOA'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS FROM THE BORDER TOWN OF GISENYI THEY ARE RETURNING FROM AN AREA WHERE ZAIREAN REBELS ARE CONTINUING TO FIGHT MEMBERS…

WFP is currently providing approximately 46,000 metric tons of food per month to 2.5 million victims of civil conflict in the Rwanda/Burundi sub-region. Rwanda / Burundi Country Programmes. In Rwanda itself, WFP's programmes continue to focus heavily on rehabilitation and reconstruction,…

(Roads and forests said to be full of corpses) (680) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA Staff Writer GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expressed despair and outrage November 8 at the…

PART I - HIGHLIGHTS (Details below in Part II) A. EAST AFRICA: REGIONAL OPERATION FOR BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE AND TANZANIA 2. Burundi a) Some 10,500 Burundians from refugee camps in Uvira area registered by 4 November; an additional 20,000 unregistered returnees in dire…