Reports

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…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Reuter) - The battle for the Somali capital Mogadishu widened Tuesday when another major faction joined the fighting, which has killed more than 135 people and wounded 900 in five days. Witnesses said militiamen under north Mogadishu alliance chief…

DATE=12/17/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-207592 TITLE=RWANDA / REFUGEES (L ONLY) BYLINE=CHRIS TOMLINSON DATELINE=KIGALI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE FLOW OF RWANDAN REFUGEES CONTINUES ACROSS THE BORDER FROM TANZANIA TO RWANDA. CHRIS TOMLINSON REPORTS ABOUT 330 REFUGEES ARE CROSSING THE BORDER EACH MINUTE. TEXT: HERDING CATTLE BEFORE THEM AND CARRYING ALL…

Moses Draku; PANA Correspondent KAMPALA, Uganda (PANA) - The Canadian military team currently in Uganda as part of the humanitarian multinational force for Zaire will return home by the end of December, an official of the force said. Up to…

During the past four weeks over 600,000 refugees have returned to Rwanda from Zaire and 500,000 more will be returning from Tanzania before the year's end. With hundreds of thousands still missing in eastern Zaire, however, and given the…

CAR AMBUSHED NEAR IKOTOS; NCA STAFF MEMBER KILLED... On 10 December, one Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) driver and four passengers were killed when an NCI car was ambushed on the road between Ikotos and Imotong. According to NCA, the…

UNHCR has issued an appeal for more than $7.7 million to fund new reintegration projects for up to 140,000 refugees who are expected to return to Somalia this coming year. UNHCR's request for funds is part of an appeal…

New York and Ngara, Tanzania, Dec. 16 -- A long-expected chapter of the Rwandan refugee saga is unfolding in Tanzania. Rwandan refugees there are flooding toward home, but under duress. Tanzanian soldiers nudge them onward. Near the Rusumo River…

New York and Rukira, Rwanda, Dec. 16, 1996 -- "It's beyond imagination to be home," said the Rwandan refugee. Someone was living in the house he left two years ago, but he could wait for that, he told Lutheran…

DHA/96/30 Genève - (Département des affaires humanitaires) - Les Nations Unies ont lancé un appel d'un montant total de US $100,5 millions pour répondre aux besoins humanitaires de secours et de réhabilitation en Somalie, un pays frappé par les effets…