Reports

PART I - HIGHLIGHTS (Details below in Part II) B. LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE 1. Liberia a) Charles Taylor survives assassination attempt on 31 October; curfew imposed. Situation in Monrovia now stable. b) Over 1,500 displaced persons storm WFP warehouse at Phebe hospital on…

PART I - HIGHLIGHTS (Details below in Part II) A. EAST AFRICA: REGIONAL OPERATION FOR BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE AND TANZANIA 1. Eastern Zaire a) Regional Summit in Nairobi on 5 November calls for neutral military intervention, establishment of humanitarian corridors and an immediate…

A million refugees are spreading across the Zaire countryside, having lost their UN lifeline to clean water and food. Already the weak are beginning to perish -- infants, nursing mothers, and the elderly. This threatens to become the gravest…

Military intervention now to save lives and secure long term peace and justice Two of the world's largest aid agencies, Oxfam and Medecins Sans Frontieres, joined today in a call for immediate deployment of troops into Zaire to save the…

ZAIRE This is a field report from our team in Gisenyi, who interviewed a few of the 2,000-odd Rwandan refugees who have been crossing back into Rwanda after days of war-like conditions. This was a group of about a half…

(FR) (Diplomatic initiatives also under way) (240) By Jacquelyn Porth USIA Security Affairs Writer WASHINGTON -- "Prudent planning" is under way for possible use of U.S. forces in contingency operations in Eastern Zaire, Defense Department spokesman Captain Mike Doubleday told reporters November 7. Although…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Mortar and anti-aircraft fire are thundering again in eastern Zaire, making worse the plight of a million Hutu refugees uprooted anew in the country they fled to after ethnic bloodbaths in Rwanda and Burundi. Zaireans scattered…

BRUSSELS (Reuter) - European Union aid ministers, stung by French criticism of "spineless inaction" in the plight of refugees stranded in eastern Zaire, met Thursday to seek a joint response to the deepening human crisis. Arriving for the meeting in…

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. 12 on Eastern Zaire (7 November 1996) Fleeing Zairean soldiers are reportedly arriving in Kisangani, the first major town about 500…

Clashes in Bo on 29 and 30 October between the Sierra Leonean armed forces and Kamanjoes (traditional hunter groups recently formed into militias) resulted in dozens of casualties. The ICRC immediately dispatched a nurse to the city to join…