Reports

D. EAST AFRICA: REGIONAL OPERATION FOR BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE AND TANZANIA 1. Burundi a) Following the death of three ICRC staff members, NGOs suspend non-emergency activities for one week in a measure of solidarity and mourning. Remaining ICRC staff leave Burundi. b)…

New Government Formed to Tackle Economic Crisis On 3 June Angolan President Eduardo Jose dos Santos announced a dramatic reshuffle of his Government to deal with the growing economic and social crisis facing the country. The sacking of the Prime Minister,…

General: The humanitarian community in Burundi reacted with deep shock to the murder in an ambush of three ICRC delegates in Cibitoke Province on Tuesday, 4 June as they were returning from an evaluation mission to Mugina. Following the assassination of…

BUJUMBURA, June 13 (Reuter) - Burundi's army said on Thursday it killed 50 Hutu rebels in an attack on a training camp and an army report blamed rebels for killing three Swiss aid workers. ''With the help of the…

ASMARA, June 13 (Reuter) - The U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday Sudan had deported 224 Eritreans and 20 Ethiopians amid growing tension between the Eritrean and Sudanese governments. "Two hundred and twenty four Eritreans and some Ethiopians were rounded…

6/13/96 The government has approached Savimbi to strike an agreement on the country's lucrative diamond mines. Details of the meeting have not been disclosed. The government has said it loses some $550 million per year due to illegal diamond mining which…

By Nicholas Kotch ADDIS ABABA, June 12 (Reuter) - Despite its worsening relations with the Islamic government in Sudan, Ethiopia will not allow its territory to be used by Sudanese rebels, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday. Meles…

By Mark Dodd NAIROBI, June 12 (Reuter) - Several international aid groups owed on Wednesday to stay on in war-torn Burundi despite the evacuation of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff following the killing of three of their…

TOKYO, June 12 -- Japan has offered up to 950 million yen in grant-in-aid to Tanzania to help boost food production in the east African nation, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. Notes on the economic assistance were exchanged between officials…