Rapports

From Segun Adeyemi; Pana Correspondent NEW YORK, (PANA) - The United Nations is sending a humanitarian mission to Zaire to hold consultations with the government over the fate of the 3,000 Tutsis caught in the fighting in Masisi, eastern Zaire. A…

On May 23, the Secretary-General decided to dispatch a DHA-led humanitarian mission to Masisi, Zaire. The mission is expected to leave on May 30, with the participation of the concerned UN agencies, in particular UNHCR and UNICEF. It will hold…

This report includes: A) WFP on the WEB B) Liberia C) Iraq D) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania E) Somalia F) Angola G) Former Yugoslavia. From B. Szynalski, Director, Operational Policy and Support Division. For information regarding resources, donors are requested…

3000 Ethnic Tutsi Surrounded by Attackers Contact: Jeff Drumtra 202-347-3507 (w) or 301-292-0534 (h) Large-scale "ethnic cleansing" in northeast Zaire, apparently sanctioned by Zairian officials, is continuing with brutal effectiveness as 3,000 ethnic Tutsi in two villages are now surrounded by attackers…

MONROVIA, May 24 (Reuter) - Hundreds of Liberian civilians from downtown Monrovia marched through the devastated centre of their capital on Friday, chanting peace slogans and demanding an end to six years of civil war. But fighters loyal to faction…

By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) _ Suspected Hutu militants attacked jails and set government offices ablaze in southwestern Rwanda, killing at least 37 people, U.N. and government officials said Tuesday. In the most serious attacks since former Tutsi rebels…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) LIBERIA - Complex Emergency Background: On April 6, 1996, fighting in Monrovia erupted between two armed factions, Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL)…

General: Security remains precarious throughout the country though road conditions have markedly improved and humanitarian organisations have made positive steps in conducting evaluations and distributions of emergency aid in areas previously considered inaccessible. MSF Belgium, who was the sole organisation working…

Louis Freedberg, San Franscisco Chronicle Washington Bureau The Clinton administration for the first time is labeling massacres in Burundi as acts of genocide and has begun an intensive, high-level diplomatic initia tive to avert a bloodbath in the Central African nation. In…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) BURUNDI - Complex Emergency Fiscal Year (FY) 1996 Note: The last situation report was dated March 12, 1996. Overview On October 21, 1993, military personnel killed President Melchoir…