Reports

STATEMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT OF RWANDA 21 NOVEMBER, 1996 A meeting was called by the Minister of Rehabilitation and Social Integration on 21st November 1996 to examine the situation of Rwandese refugees returning from Zaire as well as to establish how…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KIGALI, RWANDA -- The United States has tentatively rescinded its promise to send ground troops to eastern Zaire, planning instead to airlift humanitarian aid supplies to half a million Rwandan refugees…

Security Update for 11/20/96 Uganda claimed that heavy fighting in the Kasese area on the border with Zaire was coordinated from Sudan, and not from Zaire as had been previously reported. According to the New Vision today, President Museveni told…

(Excerpt from:) 19 November 1996 Press Release GA/SHC/3395 MASSIVE REFUGEE FLOWS TO RWANDA WOULD NOT END REGION'S HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS NORWAY TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE Committee Continues Human Rights Discussion, Hears Introduction of Two Draft Texts on Human Rights Issues…

NGO STAFF RELOCATED FROM AKOBO... Staff of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF)-Belgium, a WFP assessment team, and a RASS counterpart were relocated from Akobo to Lokichokio on 16 November on advice from local counterparts. The following day, the OLS Security Advisor…

(Concern remains about those who remain in Zaire) (810) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- Refugees returning to Rwanda are being well received in their home communes and the United Nations has received no reports of arrests of returnees, says…

(Excerpt from:) Press Release GA/SHC/3393 (...) RENE DEGNI-SEGUI, the Special Rapporteur for human rights in Rwanda, presented his report (document A/51/657) which addressed the investigation into the genocide of 1994 and the special situation of women and children and the minority group, the…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 35 in a series of weekly reports from…

American Red Cross Launches Urgent Appeal: Call 1-800-HELP NOW Washington, November 18, 1996 - As hundreds of thousands of refugees stream across the border from Zaire to Rwanda, American Red Cross officials warn that the rapidly evolving emergency is becoming evident on…

SG/SM/6109 IHA/610 18 November 1996 Following is the Statement of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the launch of the United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Flash Appeal for the Great Lakes region in response to the crisis in eastern Zaire, in New York,…