Reports

Not an official document RWANDA: Over the weekend (30/11 - 1/12), 4,803 returnees entered Gisenyi from Goma. Approximately 1,000 crossed the border on 2 December, most having come from the direction of Minova. 1,475 returnees were registered in Cyangugu between 30 November and…

The area in Eastern Zaire affected by the conflict seems to grow daily. Although the ICRC now has access to more locations in Eastern Zaire, many cities and large groups of people in desperate need of humanitarian protection and…

UNHCR has been sending reconnaissance teams to look for refugees in the Bukavu and Goma regions where they are allowed access. However, since the weekend, only small groups of refugees have been found. On Monday, 250 Rwandan refugees crossed…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 47 on eastern Zaire (Tuesday 3 December 1996) Reports from Kisangani, in eastern Zaire tell of an increasingly unstable situation in…

DATE=12/3/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-206977 TITLE=UGANDA / ZAIRE (L-O) BYLINE=ELAINE ELIAH DATELINE=KAMPALA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: UGANDA'S ARMY COMMANDER, MAJOR-GENERAL MUGISHA-MUNTU, HAS TOLD A PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE IN KAMPALA THAT UGANDAN FORCES CROSSED THE BORDER INTO ZAIRE THIS PAST WEEKEND, IN PURSUIT OF UGANDAN REBELS. ELAINE ELIAH REPORTS FROM…

OVERVIEW An FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Burundi in October 1996 to review the outcome of the second season harvest, forecast the third season production, update the 1996 food supply/demand balance and assess prospects…

This report has been produced to fulfill the information requirements of the UNDHA Geneva Taskforce on Eastern Zaire and the UNDHA mission in the Great Lakes region. The report attempts to fill the gaps resulting from time delays and…

There is no new information about the situation in the Great Lakes today. However this provides the ideal opportunity to recap on the current scenario in the Great Lakes region. Military Intervention A Canadian-led intervention force, likely to total 2,000…

DATE=12/3/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-206998 TITLE=U-S-ZAIRE (L) BYLINE=RON PEMSTEIN DATELINE=STATE DEPARTMENT CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED STATES IS EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT REPORTS OF KILLINGS OF REFUGEES BY TUTSI REBELS IN EASTERN ZAIRE. V-O-A'S CORRESPONDENT RON PEMSTEIN REPORTS FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT ON THE CONTINUING DELAYS…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Zairean rebels said Tuesday they had driven government troops out of two more towns in the northeast and panicked foreigners pulled out of the area fearing killing, looting and mayhem. Commander Jean Kabongo, special security adviser to…