Reports

UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities 48th Session - 5 - 30 August 1996 Agenda item 6 Oral Statement The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) believes that several situations in the world merit the attention of the Sub-Commission…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya has cut off travel and suspended trade with Burundi, sanctions imposed Monday in response to the recent Tutsi military coup that deposed the Hutu president. Regional leaders agreed July 31 to impose economic sanctions against…

By Stephen Buckley A son of Somali factional leader Mohamed Farah Aideed was named today to replace his father, who died last week, and to continue trying to subdue rival factions. Hussein Mohamed Aideed, 31, who landed with troops in…

KINSHASA, Aug 3 (Reuter) - The European Union (EU) has expressed serious concern about what it called the deteriorating ethnic violence and arms smuggling in eastern Zaire. A statement by the EU mission in Kinshasa, made available to Reuters on…

(excerpt) This is the first in a series of updates that will be published at six week intervals between full RNIS reports, which will now be published every three months. The update is based on information available to the SCN…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0270 REPATRIATION TO RWANDA In the month of July, UNHCR reports that there were 2,672 returnees, of which 1,033 were old caseload and 1,639 were new caseload. This is the lowest amount of returnees since the beginning of…

BRUSSELS, Aug 4 (Reuter) - Burundi's Hutu-dominated opposition said on Sunday it welcomed sanctions agreed by regional leaders after a coup ousted the country's Hutu president and ended a three-year experiment with democracy. Central and east African states decided on the…

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the Special Envoy, Kigali Main Developments The forced repatriation of Rwandese refugees from Burundi was suspended on 23 July after 15,069 persons were made to leave Kibezi and Ruvumu camps and transported to the…

As ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi spreads from Rwanda to Burundi and beyond, death and devastation follow. As in Burundi today, Rwandas brutal civil war of two years ago resulted in the slaughter of more than 500,000 people…