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UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No.82 on the Great Lakes (Saturday-Monday 18-20 January 1997) - Gunmen killed three Spanish nationals working for Medecins du Monde-Spain (MDM) in…

KIGALI (Reuter) - The U.N. refused on Monday to suspend activities in any part of Rwanda after three Spanish aid workers were murdered and an American badly wounded in an attack in a northwestern town at the weekend. "We are…

SG/SM/6147 The following statement was issued today by the Acting Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General was shocked by the killing of three Spanish aid workers and the wounding of an American aid worker employed by Médecins du Monde…

On 18 January 1997, between 19:20 and 22:00 hours approximately, unidentified armed men attacked the houses of three NGOs: Médecins Sans Frontières (Holland), Save the Children and Médecins du Monde (Spain), in the northern prefecture of Ruhengeri. Three Spanish nationals…

KIGALI (Reuter) - International aid workers hold crisis talks Monday on whether to suspend relief operations in some parts of Rwanda after the murder of three Spaniards over the weekend. "The meeting will decide whether to formally suspend humanitarian work…

By Nhial Bol KHARTOUM, Jan 20 (IPS) - The intensification of the armed conflict in Sudan over the past week has added to the religious and political polarisation here, with pro-opposition students and Christian leaders opposing the holy war…

New York, January 19: Three Spanish doctors were killed and an American project coordinator injured when Doctors of the Worlds compound in Ruhengeri, Rwanda was attacked Saturday night. All four people had been working on a health and reintegration assistance…

New York, January 19, 3:00pm: Nitin Madhav, 28, the American medical relief worker attacked in the Doctors of the World compound in Rwanda, has arrived in Nairobi for further evaluation, after surgery in Ruhengeri where his leg was amputated.…

TRIPOLI, Libya (PANA) - The Sudanese government has once again accused Eritrea and Ethiopia of involvement in "a zionist and imperialist plot" to overthrow the regime of President Omar Hassan Al Bashir. Sudan has repeatedly accused the two neighbouring states of…

Rwanda Situation: A mobilization campaign of the Rwandese population to instruct it to live in harmony, to rehabilitate their home country and to maintain their own security has been relaunched by the top Governments officials on January 15, in all…