Rapports

This is the first in a series of updates that will be published at six week intervals between full RNIS reports, which will now be published every three months. The update is based on information available to the SCN…

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the Special Envoy, Kigali Main Developments The forced repatriation of Rwandese refugees from Burundi was suspended on 23 July after 15,069 persons were made to leave Kibezi and Ruvumu camps and transported to the…

As ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi spreads from Rwanda to Burundi and beyond, death and devastation follow. As in Burundi today, Rwandas brutal civil war of two years ago resulted in the slaughter of more than 500,000 people…

Gasoline stations shut down here yesterday and residents stockpiled food two days after Tanzania closed its borders to impose an economic embargo to force the new military junta out of power. Tanzanian state radio, monitored in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi,…

By Elif Kaban BUJUMBURA, Aug 5 (Reuter) - Tanzania tightened an economic noose around its tiny neighbour Burundi to try to force its new military government from power, blocking oil tankers at its borders and halting all port traffic to…

Following the massacre in Burundi this weekend of 300 mostly women and children, 72 wounded have been transferred to Gitega hospital to be operated on by a Doctors Without Borders surgeon. Since Sunday morning, a Doctors Without Borders surgeon…

By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) _ Anticipating that thousands of Rwandan refugees would continue their voluntary return home Saturday, U.N. agencies mobilized 100 trucks and relief workers. But intimidators in the camps in neighboring Burundi sabotaged the…

Office of the President Nairobi, 1st August 1996 To His Excellency Alain Dejammet Chairman of the UN Security Council Your Excellency, We have just learnt with concern that the UN Security Council does not intend to publish the report made by the UN…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Tanzania closed its border with Burundi Friday as part of a regional sanctions package against the central African state aimed at bringing down Tutsi military rulers who seized power last week, businessmen said. An oil company…

By GEORGE GEDDA WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Secretary of State Warren Christopher testified on a range of issues before two congressional committees recently, the world's most compelling humanitarian crisis barely got a mention. Lawmakers probed Christopher for four hours about the Middle…