Reports

NATIONS UNIES Departement 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 [Le bulletin special est base sur des informations pertinentes en provenance d'agences des Nations Unies, d'ONG, de gouvernements, de…

(8 December 1997)--In Stoking the Fires: Military Assistance, Arms Trafficking, and the Civil War in Burundi, released today, Human Rights Watch charges that members of the international community have blithely continued to supply arms or other forms of military assistance…

The following statement by Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was issued on Sunday 7 December, Kigali, Rwanda : I came to Rwanda as a friend of the country, having visited three times since the genocide of…

SACB - Situation on the ground Number of people newly reported to have died : 6 (total confirmed : 1,579) Number of displaced people: total so far at least 230,000 Livestock reported killed so far : at least 28,967 Food stock…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for the Great Lakes Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org [This brief is intended as background information for the humanitarian community and does not necessarily reflect the views of the UN] 6…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson has visited some of the overcrowded prisons in Rwanda. According to a United Nations Spokesman, the Human Rights Commissioner visited Remeri prison in Kigali, where 5,000 prisoners were locked in a prison…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi, Paulo S‚rgio Pinheiro (Brazil), has announced plans to travel to that country from 7 to 20 December. In a press release issued from Geneva, the Special Rapporteur expressed his…

THIS APPEAL SEEKS CHF 12,379,500 IN CASH, KIND AND SERVICES TO ASSIST 356,000 BENEFICIARIES FOR SIX MONTHS Summary Across Eastern Africa, more than a million people are directly affected by the worst floods for over 30 years and many more are at…

NCN (New Congo Net) has obtained information from a highly reliable source that affirms what many other experts have been saying for some time, which is that Sudan is the next powder keg ready to explode on the African continent.…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 49 of 1997 Date: 5 December 1997 This report includes: A) Iraq B) Afghanistan C) East Africa: Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania D) Central Africa: Democratic…