Rapports

From Tarcey Munaku; PANA Correspondent YAOUNDE, Cameroon (PANA) - African leaders have sent an urgent appeal to the international community, especially the United Nations, to facilitate strife-torn Liberia's transition from war to peace. Anarchy reigns in the West African nation of three…

by the Africa Faith and Justice Network Washington, DC - The situation in Zaire has become more critical and more complicated in the last few months. Fierce fighting has broken out in Masisi, one of the most fertile areas in…

By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- American and U.N. officials advised Americans in Rwanda on Friday to take extra precautions after a shadowy rebel group announced rewards for killing U.S. citizens.The Hutu group, People in Arms for…

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press Writer MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Refugees from the country's civil war were taken hostage by one of the warring factions, then shot to death when rival militiamen attacked their abductors, witnesses said Friday. Survivors of Thursday's mayhem…

Washington, DC - Monrovia in the last few weeks has faced what is now known as a "semblance of peace." But war-wearied Liberians want more than a semblance of peace, they want the real thing: lasting and durable peace,…

La Belgique a-t-elle perdu la raison? La Belgique a-t-elle perdu la raison? L'UDPS, principal parti d'opposition radicale au Zaïre, est ulcéré par le rapprochement belgo-zaïrois qui s'est opéré ce lundi, à l'occasion de l'invitation par le gouvernement du Premier ministre…

by A Correspondent Nairobi - Burundi appears to be heading towards political deadlock with East African regional leaders over coming deployment of an African military force to stabilise the war-torn central African nation. Regional leaders see the military force as a peacekeeping…

Kigali - Killings of Rwandan witnesses to the 1994 genocide are on the increase, and totalled 48 people between January and May this year alone, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement here on June…

DATE=8/7/96 TITLE=RWANDA / REFUGEES (S ONLY) BYLINE=CHRIS TOMLINSON DATELINE=KIGALI INTRO: RWANDAN REFUGEES LIVING IN BURUNDI ARE CONTINUING TO RETURN HOME IN RECORD NUMBERS. CHRIS TOMLINSON IN KIGALI REPORTS U-N OFFICIALS ARE OPTIMISTIC THE REPATRIATION WILL CONTINUE. TEXT: THE U-N REFUGEE AGENCY REPORTS THAT MORE THAN…

Washington, DC - Because the crisis in Burundi has not degenerated into a full scale massacre such as that in Rwanda in 1994, the gravity of the present crisis has perhaps not yet fully penetrated our minds. With an…