Reports

DATE=12/16/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-224184 TITLE=U-N / RWANDA REFUGEES (L ONLY) BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN DATELINE=GENEVA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: HIGH LEVEL DISCUSSIONS ARE UNDERWAY BETWEEN THE U-N REFUGEE AGENCY (U-N-H-C-R) AND MINISTERS FROM RWANDA AND CONGO-KINSHASA ABOUT THE FUTURE OF TUTSI REFUGEES WHO RECENTLY FLED THE MUDENDE…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The Registrar of the Tribunal for Rwanda, Agwu Ukiwe Okali has said that recent guerrilla activity in Rwanda may have a negative impact on the work of the Tribunal. In an interview with United Nations Radio on Tuesday, the…

(Ambs. Kontos and Petterson brief at CSIS breakfast) (940) By Jim Fisher-Thompson USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- Returning from a recent fact-finding mission to the Horn of Africa, two former U.S. ambassadors to Sudan have reported that Africans with whom they spoke…

UNHCR has been holding talks in Rwanda with ministerial delegations from Rwanda and the DRC about the future of the DRC Tutsi refugee population from Mudende camp. After the massacre at the camp in the early hours of last…

Internal report Not an official document At a Glance - High Commissioner Sadako Ogata condemns as barbaric the attack on Mudende camp in Rwanda's Gisenyi Prefecture which killed more than 300 Congolese refugees and wounded over 200 others on December 11. - Ministers…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Update No. 314 for Central and Eastern Africa (Tuesday 16 December 1997) RWANDA: Interior ministers discuss fate of refugees The interior…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - The World Food Programme announced Tuesday that it will provide urgently needed food for at least 600,000 Somalis who have lost all their crops and household reserves in two months to heavy rains and devastating…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's government says it has started massive food, fuel and drug airlifts to flood victims in the north-eastern and northern parts of coastal provinces. The United States and Japan have also joined in the flood disaster…

UPDATES ON SOMALIA INTER-AGENCY COORDINATED FLOOD RESPONSE Situation Updates: 1. The UN Resident Coordinator for Somalia reports that the most recent death toll (confirmed figures) stands at 1,786 (as of 12 December), with at least 230,000 people displaced. At least 32,939 livestock…

(12/13 statement by spokesman James Foley) (270) WASHINGTON -- State Department spokesman James Foley December 13 condemned the attack on the refugee camp in Mudende, Rwanda, by rebel insurgents in which some 231 refugees were killed. "We are deeply troubled that,…