Reports

Gasoline stations shut down here yesterday and residents stockpiled food two days after Tanzania closed its borders to impose an economic embargo to force the new military junta out of power. Tanzanian state radio, monitored in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi,…

By Elif Kaban BUJUMBURA, Aug 5 (Reuter) - Tanzania tightened an economic noose around its tiny neighbour Burundi to try to force its new military government from power, blocking oil tankers at its borders and halting all port traffic to…

Following the massacre in Burundi this weekend of 300 mostly women and children, 72 wounded have been transferred to Gitega hospital to be operated on by a Doctors Without Borders surgeon. Since Sunday morning, a Doctors Without Borders surgeon…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Reuter) - More than 10,000 Somalis, many of them wailing, Friday attended the burial of powerful faction leader Mohamed Farah Aideed who died Thursday after being fatally wounded in clan fighting. The Italian and Russian-trained general, whose ragged fighters…

By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) _ Anticipating that thousands of Rwandan refugees would continue their voluntary return home Saturday, U.N. agencies mobilized 100 trucks and relief workers. But intimidators in the camps in neighboring Burundi sabotaged the…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0291 PERIOD COVERED: 22 JULY - 4 AUGUST 1996 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT WAS PROVIDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE COORDINATION UNIT IN LUANDA (UCAH) Preparations for the demobilisation of 100,000 active soldiers continue. With the support…

Office of the President Nairobi, 1st August 1996 To His Excellency Alain Dejammet Chairman of the UN Security Council Your Excellency, We have just learnt with concern that the UN Security Council does not intend to publish the report made by the UN…

MOGADISHU (Reuter) - The death of powerful faction leader Mohamed Farah Aideed left many Somalis apprehensive on Saturday, overwhelmingly sick of war and hoping their clan warlords will give peace a chance at last. The sandswept seaside capital was unsually quiet…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Tanzania closed its border with Burundi Friday as part of a regional sanctions package against the central African state aimed at bringing down Tutsi military rulers who seized power last week, businessmen said. An oil company…

NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuter) - The death of Gen. Mohamed Farah Aideed, scourge of U.S. and U.N. peacekeepers, might help peace develop in devastated Somalia for the first time since 1991. His death was announced Friday, more than a week after…