Reports

By Elif Kaban KIGALI, June 20 (Reuter) - Rwanda on Thursday began issuing new passports to deal a blow to its extremist Hutu enemies in exile by rendering thousands of old passports they hold worthless and effectively denying them citizenship. Deputy…

(FR) (6/20 press briefing in Geneva) (4420) GENEVA -- Ambassador Richard W. Bogosian, U.S. special coordinator for Rwanda and Burundi, says the international community is trying to determine which measures might "minimize the catastrophe" should the continuing violence in Burundi…

Washington - Statement by U.S. State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns on June 19 condemning killing in Burundi of civilians near Kibimba, three International Committee of the Red Cross workers near Cibitoke, a nun in Gitega: The United States vehemently condemns the…

Sudan The nutritional and health situation of the displaced populations around Greater Khartoum continues to deteriorate; under-five mortality rates of 4/10,000/day (13x normal) are reported with malnutrition considered a primary cause. This is attributed to the…

LUANDA, June 17 (Reuter) - The United Nations on Monday praised Angola's UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi for disarming more than 49,000 soldiers by the weekend. U.N. chief to Angola, Alioune Blondin Beye, held talks with Savimbi at Andulo in the…

By Christian Jennings BUJUMBURA, June 17 (Reuter) - The Burundian army strongly denied on Monday charges of involvement in a massacre of 71civilians near central Gitega province last week. "This information -- these reports, they are simply and categorically false," Colonel…

General: The entire ICRC delegation pulled out of Burundi on 11 June after receiving multiple threats by telephone during the weekend of 8-9 June. The ICRC had suspended all activities in the country the week previous following the murder of…

KIGALI, June 16 (Reuter) - A total of 34 local government officials were killed in Rwanda in the first five months of this year, the U.N. human rights office in Rwanda says. In a statement, it said it was…

General: The entire ICRC delegation pulled out of Burundi on 11 June after receiving multiple threats by telephone during the weekend of 8-9 June. The ICRC had suspended all activities in the country the week previous following the murder of…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 441125 Fax: +254 2 448816 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 13 in a series of weekly reports from…