Rapports

By STEFAN LOVGREN Associated Press Writer BUGENDANA, Burundi (AP) - Burundi observed an official day of mourning today after Hutu rebels slaughtered an estimated 320 people, mostly women and children, at a camp for Tutsis displaced in the three-year civil war. With…

From Paul Ejime ; PANA Staff Correspondent LAGOS, Nigeria (PANA) - The Council of Ministers of the 16-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) currently meeting in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, is expected to devote Wednesday's session to the…

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees on Tuesday demanded that Burundi immediately halt the forced return of thousands of Rwandan refugees, describing it as a flagrant violation of basic human rights and international refugee instruments. In a letter to Burundi…

Geneva, 23 July 1996 Thousands of Rwandan refugees in northern Burundi are being forced to return to their homeland after two of four camps managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies were closed by the…

Forced Repatriation of Rwandan Refugees from Burundi As of Tuesday 23 July, a total of some 15,000 Rwandan refugees had been forcefully repatriated from Burundi. This forced repatriation started on 19 July and was continuing on 23 July, with 3,950 refugees…

(FR) (UNHCR says Rwandan authorities are colluding in the operation) (510) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- Burundi and Rwandan authorities are colluding to ship thousands of Hutu refugees from a camp inside Burundi back across the border into Rwanda…

MONROVIA, July 22 (Reuter) - The United Nations and other international agencies operating in Liberia lost 489 vehicles worth $8 million during widespread looting in Monrovia in April and May, a U.N. report said on Monday. The report by the…

ACCRA, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Jerry John Rawlings said here Sunday that the change in the chairmanship of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will not affect the organization's programme for war-torn Liberia. Rawlings, whose term as…

11 - 17 July 96 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT WAS PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN LIBERIA UN AGENCIES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND NGOS SUMMARY OF THE 165 DISPLACED PERSONS ASSISTED…

The following statement was made today by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General: Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has learned with the utmost dismay of the latest massacre of civilians in Burundi. More than 300 women, children and elderly men were killed over the…