Reports

DATE=2/1/98 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-38830 TITLE=BURUNDI REBELS BYLINE=DIANNA CAHN DATELINE=BUJUMBURA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE TUTSI-CONTROLLED BURUNDIAN ARMY SAYS REBELS FROM NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES ARE FIGHTING WITH BURUNDIAN HUTU REBELS TO TRY TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENTS OF BURUNDI, RWANDA, CONGO, AND UGANDA. MILITARY SPOKESMAN COLONEL LONGIN MINANI SAYS THE…

*** WFP’s food delivery capacity seriously affected by transport constraints as a result of rains and floods. Food distributions are presently at reduced levels. *** WFP is co-ordinating the logistics arrangements for the operation to assist some…

Office of the Regional Humanitarian Advisor for the Great Lakes, OCHA Nairobi AFFECTED POPULATIONS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION (DISPLACED - DISPERSED - REFUGEES) SUMMARY TABLE Updated version as of 1 February 1998 1) REPUBLIC OF CONGO (Brazzaville) See map LOCATION ORIGIN FIGURE COMMENT Loukolela Rwandan 5,080 Refugee figure. Rwandans in a…

DATE=2/1/98 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-226177 TITLE=RWANDA PRIEST (S ONLY) BYLINE=SONYA LAURENCE GREEN DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT UN-VOICED: INTRO: A CROATIAN PRIEST WHO HAD WORKED IN RWANDA FOR 17-YEARS HAS BEEN SHOT AND KILLED IN THE CAPITAL KIGALI. COLLEAGUES SUSPECT HE MAY HAVE BEEN TARGETED BY HUTU EXTREMISTS IN THE COUNTRY.…

N A T I O N S U N I E S Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN-CEA: Bulletin hebdomadaire…

N A T I O N S U N I E S Bureau pour la coordination des affaires humanitaires IRIN - Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN: Bulletin quotidien no…

Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1998. RWANDA The largely Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which took power following the civil war and genocide of 1994, is the principal political force and…

Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1998. Kenya President Daniel Arap Moi won reelection in December in Kenya's second general elections since the restoration of multiparty politics in 1991. While observers considered…

Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1998. BURUNDI President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was overthrown in a military coup on July 25, 1996. The National Assembly and political parties operate under significant constraints. The…

Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1998. SOMALIA Somalia has been without a central government since its last president, dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, fled the country in 1991. Subsequent fighting among rival faction leaders…