Reports

From Sam Mugo; PANA Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Outside help alone will not lead to a durable solution in the Great Lakes region, Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi told heads of state gathered in Nairobi Monday for a…

HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A committee of four African leaders has been set up to work out strategies for ending the crisis in the Great Lakes region. African leaders meeting in Nairobi Monday to review the situation in the region…

Light is gradually being shed on the whereabouts of large groups of Rwandan and Burundian refugees still remaining in eastern Zaire. After having located some 11,000 refugees (90% of whom are Rwandan and 10% Burundian) in Shabunda, about mid-way…

Mass repatriation of Rwandan refugees from Tanzania continues World must now focus "not just on the road home but on the long road ahead" "Now that the refugee camps are no more, the world should direct aid to Rwanda; to…

During the past four weeks over 600,000 refugees have returned to Rwanda from Zaire and 500,000 more will be returning from Tanzania before the year's end. With hundreds of thousands still missing in eastern Zaire, however, and given the…

ZAIRE: The situation of the refugees in the area around Lubutu continues to be dramatic. UNICEF ZAIRE Programme Coordinator Philippe Duamelle in Tingi-Tingi estimates that thousands of persons, in particular, children could die between now and Christmas unless a massive humanitarian…

The material that follows has been provided by Panos By Ali A. Mazrui New York - The crisis in eastern Zaire, and between Zaire and its neighbours, poses the greatest challenge yet to the artificial borders European imperial powers established at…

DATE=12/17/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-207595 TITLE=ZAIRE / CHILD SOLDIERS (L ONLY) BYLINE=CHRIS TOMLINSON DATELINE=BENI, ZAIRE CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: IN THE PAST FOUR MONTHS, REBELS IN EASTERN ZAIRE HAVE CAPTURED A STRIP OF EASTERN ZAIRE STRETCHING 550 KILOMETERS FROM LAKE TANGANYIKA ALMOST TO THE SUDANESE BORDER. CHRIS TOMLINSON…

Policy Update 5 The action by the Tanzanian government to repatriate 600,000 Rwandan refugees before Christmas now appears inevitable. For two years the failure to screen refugees and separate those suspected of crimes against humanity left refugees in the camps…

Operations completed: 1. One (1) airlift of 26.4 MT UNICEF urgent relief items from Copenhagen to Kampala/Uganda by Netherlands Airforce on 3 November 1996. 2. Four (4) airlifts with C-130 (60 MT of High Energy Biscuits) by theBelgium Airforce for WFP…