Rwanda
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…
Angola
LISBON, May 24 (Reuter) - U.S. Vice President Al Gore, on a visit to Portugal, said on Friday he expected progress in the slow-moving Angolan peace process in the coming weeks. Gore told a news conference in Lisbon that the…
Burundi
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…
Angola
OVERVIEW An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Angola from 21 April to 3 May 1996 to estimate the 1995/96 output of foodcrops in the country, project cereal import requirements for 1996/97 and assess food…
Burundi
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…
Burundi
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…
Sudan
KHARTOUM, The Reuters World Service via Individual Inc. : Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir accused the United States of instigating U.N. sanctions against Khartoum for allegedly supporting guerilla groups, a government-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday. ''The (Security Council) resolution was based on…
Rwanda
As part of an on-going process of improving the efficiency of assistance to Rwanda, an all day Workshop on Government NGO collaboration was jointly convened by the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Social Integration (MINIREISO) and the UNDP on Wednesday,…
Burundi
Travel Advice Unit, Consular Division Foreign & Commonwealth Office 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Tel: 0171 238 4503/4504 Fax: 0171 238 4545 British nationals are strongly advised not to travel to Burundi at present. The political and security situation throughout Burundi is extremely…
Rwanda
The Secretary-General has recommended to the Security Council that a new UN office be established in Rwanda for an initial period of six months, a UN Spokesman said on 16 May. In a report to the Council, the Secretary-General…
