Rapports

October 1996 MAJOR EVENTS Fighting in North and South Kivu displaces hundreds of thousands of refugees. UN Secretary-General appoints Ambassador Raymond Chrétien as Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region. Numerous diplomatic initiatives are undertaken to address conflict…

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. 2 on Eastern Zaire (31 October 1996) Fighting in and around Goma, the capital of North Kivu, intensified during the morning,…

NAIROBI, Kenya (Oct 31, 1996 11:48 p.m. EST) - If Zaire's disorganized army is defeated by Tutsi forces in the east, Africa's stumbling mineral-rich giant will be at greater risk of dismemberment than at any time since independence in…

GENEVA (Reuter) - The U.N. refugee agency said some 115,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees fled a camp in eastern Zaire on Thursday after fighting and were heading south toward another camp already overflowing with 400,000 people. UNHCR spokeswoman Ruth Marshall said in…

FROM SAM KILEY IN KIGALI RWANDA is on the verge of war with Zaire after it sent commandos across the Ruzizi River into Bukavu. The Government said that it was close to ordering a larger retaliation against an alliance of…

Community Aid Abroad is asking Australians for donations to help provide clean water and sanitation for the refugees flooding into Mugunga camp near Goma, the world's largest refugee camp sheltering almost half a million people. As another 200,000 refugees fleeing from…

GA/SHC/3371 EASTERN ZAIRE ON BRINK OF CALAMITY AS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FLEE, HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE Committee Holds Dialogue with High Commissioner, Begins Debate on Refugee and Other Humanitarian Questions Although there had been a small reduction in…

News Service 200/96 AI INDEX: AFR 62/22/96 At a time when Rwandese refugees are under attack in Eastern Zaire, the plight of other victims continues to be ignored by the international community, Amnesty International said today. "More attention should be paid…

emergency appeal no. 01.02/96 period covered: 30-31 October 1996 EMERGENCY REPORT - KIVU CRISIS Corrigendum Due to a regrettable mistake, yesterday's Situation Report was printed on Emergency Appeal letterhead. We do apologise with our readers. Latest events Goma Dramatic events have erupted in Goma…

DATE=10/31/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205382 TITLE=U-N / ZAIRE (S) BYLINE=DOUGLAS ROBERTS DATELINE=GENEVA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE FIGHTING IN EASTERN ZAIRE HAS REACHED THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE BORDER TOWN OF GOMA, PARALYZING HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS FOR THE MORE THAN 700-THOUSAND RWANDAN REFUGEES IN THE AREA. OFFICIALS OF THE…