Reports

UN Wrongly Blamed for Failure to Aid Victims (New York, September 7, 2004) -- A Burundian rebel movement was responsible for the August 13 slaughter of more than 150 civilians at Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi, and not the combined forces…

SC/8182 AFR/1020 Following is the press statement made by Juan Antonio Yañez-Barnuevo (Spain), President of the Security Council, on 3 September: The Security Council was briefed today by Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi with an update on the special report from the United…

War Crimes and Political Agendas Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, September 2004 "There were songs, alleluias, the same as those that we sing in our churches. That's why some still trusted them. Then the shots, the fire. That afternoon I had…

Community Empowerment Projects Workers Deployed in Lofa County 35 Community Empowerment Project (CEP) workers have been deployed in four districts in Lofa County namely, Voinjama, Zorzor, Salayea and Kolahun. The CEP workers are expected to guide residents to identify needs and…

A. General Situation Highlights UNMIL to End Disarmament in October The Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jacques Paul Klein has said disarmament of ex-combatants will conclude at the end of October this year. He was briefing speaking at the regular UN Mission…

Note: This report updates the last fact sheet dated August 20, 2004 DARFUR EMERGENCY -- NUMBERS AT A GLANCE SOURCE Conflict Affected Persons in Darfur and Eastern Chad 2.2 million people U.S. Government, European Union, and United Nations Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Darfur 1.2 million people U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…

Ce rapport ne reflète pas nécessairement la position officielle des Nations Unies. FAITS MAJEURS Plus de 10.000 personnes déplacées de la tribu des Babuyu vivent sans aucune assistance le long de la rivière Lwama, dans la province du Maniema. D'après les…

Introduction Since early 2003, the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan has provoked an outflow of some 200,000 refugees to eastern Chad and caused over one million persons to be internally displaced in Darfur. Armed attacks by Janjaweed…

HEJAILIJA, Sudan, Sept 3 (UNHCR) - First came the terror - murders, rapes, pillage, arson. Now comes a life on the move, sleeping in tiny, flimsy straw huts and eating grass and seeds barely fit for animals. "We are safe…

Rachel Eklou-Assogbavi/MONUC A year ago the district of Ituri was still making headlines as MONUC Ituri Brigade took over from Operation Artemis, a French-led EU Interim Emergency Multinational Force (IEMF). Ituri had fallen prey to unprecedented violence as warring ethnic…