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AI Index: AFR 62/23/96 EXTRA 171/96 ZAIRE Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, human rights activist Harouna Mbongo, human rights activist Bashi Nabukili, human rights activist Members of the Tutsi ethnic group Three human rights activists in the Zairian capital, Kinshasa, are reported to have been arrested…

GATUMBA, Burundi (Oct 31, 1996 11:48 p.m. EST) - Dozens of bloated corpses, some with bound hands, are floating down the Rusizi river bordering on Zaire and Burundi into Lake Tanganyika, fishermen said on Thursday. At least 13 corpses, including…

UNITED NATIONS (Oct 31, 1996 11:48 p.m. EST) - Raymond Chretien, the new U.N. envoy to Central Africa, said on Thursday he would focus on a ceasefire in Zaire before tackling any other problems in the growing crisis in…

This alert does not guarantee that an appeal will follow. To give your input, see contact at end of bulletin. Tensions along the border of Rwanda and eastern Zaire continue to escalate, with some 115,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees fleeing a…

10/31/96 Red Cross Action The Red Cross is alarmed at the grave humanitarian crisis unfolding in Eastern Zaire. In the Goma area, fighting is intensifying, forcing hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees to flee their camps in search of safer ground.…

Red Cross Action The International Red Cross continues to provide assistance to the Rwandan and Burundian refugees and displaced Zairians in the Goma area. Both the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation ) and the International Committee…

Fighting around Goma has closed airport further 314.000 refugees uprooted at Kahindo & Katale - parts of Bukavu taken by rebels Geneva, October 31, (11.00 am.,CET):"I can see and hear heavy field guns being fired just 500 meters from the house.…

In the past twenty-four hours several developments, including heavy fighting in Bukavu and Goma, and the possible seizure of Goma airport by Tutsi rebels, underscore the importance of responding to this crisis quickly and effectively. We are on track to…

REF/1152 HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES URGES IMMEDIATE END TO FIGHTING IN EASTERN ZAIRE, WARNS OF 'TERRIBLE SITUATION' FOR THOUSANDS UN Official Says Many May Die in Congested Camps; Also Expresses Shock at Reported Assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop GENEVA, 31 October…

At a Glance Some 115,000 Rwandan refugees flee Kahindo camp, head for Mugunga and Lac Vert camps, which are already packed with more than 400,000 refugees and 10,000 displaced Zairians. Fighting hits Goma town, preventing aid workers from continuing food…