Reports

In response to the massive influx of returning Rwandan refugees from Goma, Zaïre, the World Food Programme has decided to abandon plans for food distribution at the border. Instead, WFP will distribute rations at the prefectures and communes of…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org [IRIN Note: This document is in no way intended to be…

DATE=11/16/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-206299 TITLE=RWANDA / BORDER (S) BYLINE=DOUG ROBERTS DATELINE=GOMA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE MASS EXODUS FROM EASTERN ZAIRE CONTINUED SATURDAY WITH HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF RWANDAN REFUGEES MOVING TOWARD THE BORDER FROM CAMPS OUTSIDE THE TOWN OF GOMA. AID AGENCY OFFICIALS SAY MORE 200…

Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders USA November 16, 1996 Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières has been attempting since early November to provide assistance to over 1,000,000 refugees trapped in the violence in Eastern Zaire. With over 200 volunteers in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last fact sheet was dated November 15, 1996. Current Situation: On Thursday afternoon, troops from the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of…

GOMA: Movement of people towards and across the border continues. A reported 70,000 to 80,000 people have already crossed into Rwanda. Their condition are reported reasonable. WFP is distributing high energy biscuits as primary relief food assistance. It is…

UNITED NATIONS Security Council 15 November 1996 [IRIN Note: This is an unofficial transcript of the text of UN Security Council Resolution 1080 (1996).] The Security Council, Reaffirming its resolution 1078 (1996) of 9 November 1996, Gravely concerned at the continuing deteriorating situation in the…

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. 25 on Eastern Zaire, November 15, 1996 Nairobi - Refugees continued to stream across the Zairean border into Rwanda throughout…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KISANGANI, ZAIRE -- Thousands of Rwandan refugees are believed to be hiding in the dense forest between Kisangani and Goma, but the situation is so volatile here that international aid workers…

MUGUNGA CAMP, Zaire (Reuter) - Hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees Friday trudged back to the homeland they fled in panic after the genocide against Tutsis in 1994. A sea of refugees blocked the road through the Zairean town…