Rapports

From Segun Adeyemi ; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, United Nations (PANA) The United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the chairman of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), President Paul Biya of Cameroon, are worried by the tension in eastern Zaire,…

(excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS This document is prepared by the Central News Section of the Department of Public Information and is updated every week-day at approximately 6:00 PM. The World Food Programme has said that it intended to launch a limited airlift of…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Zairean troops pulled back in confusion in eastern Zaire Thursday in the face of a Tutsi rebel advance uprooting nearly 300,000 Rwandan and Burundian refugees. A spokesman for the Tutsis rebels known as Banyamulenge said their forces…

WHAT: Today, a WFP Buffalo aircraft plus an ICRC aircraft evacuated all expatriate aid workers from Uvira. UNHCR gives a figure of 58 passengers. They cannot confirm the names of passengers but indicate that ALL expatriate aid workers were…

(FR) (10/24 statement by Spokesman Nicholas Burns) (180) WASHINGTON -- State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns on October 24 issued a brief statement deploring the recent fighting in Eastern Zaire and calling on "all parties to cease the violence and defuse the…

DATE=10/24/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205090 TITLE=LIBERIA / PEACE (L ONLY) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE«IDJAN CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE WEST AFRICAN PEACEKEEPING FORCE HAS SENT AN ADVANCE TEAM OF SOLDIERS TO THE SOUTHEASTERN LIBERIAN PORT OF GREENVILLE TO PREPARE FOR A LARGER DEPLOYMENT OF TROOPS LATER THIS WEEK.…

Tens of thousands of Rwandan and other refugees are arriving in Bukavu, Zaire. They are fleeing a flare-up of violence to the south. The fighting reportedly pits Zairean troops against partisans in the civil strife that affects the border…

WHAT: About 50 international humanitarian workers -- including three CARE staff -- were released today from Uvira, Zaire, where they had been pinned down by the Zairian army and a hostile crowd. Thanks to direct intervention from Mrs. Sadako…

SG/SM/6093 30 October 1996 The following was issued today by the Spokeswoman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali: On 23 October, the Secretary-General met with President Paul Biya of Cameroon in the latter's capacity as current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity. Among…

Eastern Zaire - EIN/GVA/96/21 UNICEF is extremely worried by the rapid deterioration of the situation in eastern Zaire and the consequences this may have on the children: Most of the children have been living in refugee camps since the 1994…