Rapports

BUJUMBURA, Nov 4 (Reuter) - Burundi has protested strongly to Zaire after its ambassador's residence in Kinshasa was looted by troops and students at the weekend, state-run Radio Burundi said on Monday. "The government of Burundi protests indignantly to the Zairean…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KINSHASA, ZAIRE -- One of Africa's biggest, potentially richest, and most anarchic nations may be bound for collapse. Zaire, whose dictator has been absent with illness for two months, has been set adrift…

CAPE TOWN (Reuter) - South Africa is willing to scrap a controversial deal to sell arms to Rwanda if Central and East African governments ask it to do so, a senior government minister said Monday. Kader Asmal, chairman of the…

DATE=11/4/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205615 TITLE=ZAIRE BAN (S) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE=KINSHASA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE GOVERNMENT OF ZAIRE HAS BANNED PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION FOLLOWING THE OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE LAST WEEK DURING A PROTEST MARCH IN THE CAPITAL, KINSHASA. FROM KINSHASA, V-O-A CORRESPONDENT PURNELL MURDOCK REPORTS THE ANNOUNCEMENT COMES AMID…

Red Cross Action The Red Cross fears that the alarming developments taking place in Eastern Zaire, home to a million refugees, mostly Rwandan, may soon lead to a humanitarian crisis similar to the tragic events of the summer of 1994,…

Given the scope of the human tragedy now unfolding in Zaire, the international community is urgently seeking ways to deal with the situation. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is all the more concerned as thousands of…

Press Release HR/96/63 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today expressed his profound concern at the growth and intensification of the lethal conflict in the Great Lakes region. The High Commissioner, Mr JosJ Ayala-Lasso, appealed urgently to all parties…

U.S. Department of State Daily Press Briefing Friday, November 1, 1996 Briefer: Nicholas Burns QUESTION: Can you bring us up to date on the situation on the Rwanda-Zaire border? MR. BURNS: Yes, as best as we can. It's a terribly…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Tutsi rebels announced a cease-fire in eastern Zaire Monday after a lightning two-week offensive left more than a million refugees stranded with little food or water. Meanwhile, Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko flew from Switzerland, where he…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - International relief agencies and policy planners Sunday focused on the plight of more than one million Hutu refugees in embattled eastern Zaire, with protected "humanitarian corridors" the favored option. Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees,…