Reports

Appeal Target : US$ 2,834,961 Geneva, December 20, 1996 Dear Friends, There could not be a more joyful Christmas gift than the homecoming of several hundred thousand Rwandans -- refugees for over 2 years now. Finally, there may be…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - More than 78 people have been killed in Kizuka, southern Burundi, 70 km from Bujumbura, army spokesman Col. Minani Longin announced on Thursday. The massacre was discovered by soldiers pursuing extremist Hutu rebels who had laid…

From Ferdinand Bigumandondera; PANA Correspondent BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Burundian public workers will effective January 1997 have to contribute 6 percent of their monthly wages towards the ongoing civil war, which has engulfed the country since October 1993. A statement issued after…

1. OVERVIEW An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Sudan from 19 November to 11 December 1996 to estimate production from the current harvests of sorghum and millet and to forecast that for the wheat…

60,000 Rwandan refugees crossed border from Tanzania Tuesday, bringing total to 200,000 so far Another 160,000 on the way [Dec 19, 1996] "This repatriation has solved Rwandas insurgency problems, but now the country faces the challenge of internal security. There will…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI -- Burundi is filled with ghost towns and ghost roads. One of them is Route 1. Once a major thoroughfare, the road, which stretches from the border with Rwanda…

DATE=12/18/96 TYPE=YEAREND REPORT NUMBER=5-35248 TITLE=96: ANGOLA BYLINE=ALEX BELIDA DATELINE=JOHANNESBURG CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: AT YEAR'S END, THE UNITED NATIONS HAS BEGUN SCALING DOWN ITS SIZEABLE PEACEKEEPING OPERATION IN ANGOLA. DEMILITARIZATION STEPS IN A 1994 PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FORMER REBEL MOVEMENT UNITA (NATIONAL UNION FOR…

African leaders met in Nairobi December 16 and 17 to discuss the crisis in the Great Lakes Region. However, contrary to the expectations of the Buyoya government and others, neither the conflict within Burundi nor the regionally imposed embargo…

Tanzania UNHCR estimates that about 150,000 refugees have returned to Rwanda from Tanzania to date; 105,000 of whom returned yesterday. Benaco, Musuhura and Kitali camps in Ngara are now empty and way stations have been established between Karagwe and Ngara. Reports suggest that…

RWANDA: Some 105,000 Rwandan refugees returned from Tanzania on 16 December. The cumulative number from 14 to 16 December is estimated at 143,500. The majority of those returning in the past few days is coming from the Ngara camps however…