Reports

The World Food Programme today warned that intensified armed fighting and the worsening security situation in eastern Zaire has led to a cut-off in humanitarian supplies which could result in a major hunger crisis affecting over one million Rwandan…

Rapid and dramatic changes during the last few days in Kivu province in eastern Zaire have adversely affected ICRC efforts to step up its medical operation for the war-wounded in Uvira hospital. Fighting between the various armed forces has…

A L E R T Great Lakes No 3: ACT prepares to airlift food while Bukavo in Eastern Zaire sees 1,500 new refugees arriving per hour. Tens of thousands of refugees have already reached Bukavu within the last…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Hundreds of thousands of refugees and local Zaireans fleeing ethnic fighting in eastern Zaire are threatened with hunger and disease, aid agencies warned on Wednesday in the city of Bukavu. They said Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees…

From Ghion Hagos; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - The secretary-general of the Organisation of Africa Unity, Salim Ahmed Salim, said Wednesday he was gravely concerned by the fighting in eastern Zaire, particularly in South Kivu province, and…

October 23 -- Warehouses in Bukavu, Zaire, hold enough food to last three to six days while every hour about a thousand refugees reach the camps desperate for food and shelter. About 50,000 people are expected to arrive today…

September 1995 - August 1996 Information Note to Donors Extension of the Appeal through 31 December 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Introduction2. General Situation 2.1 Political Situation 2.2 Security Situation 2.3 Humanitarian Situation 3. Humanitarian Strategy 3.1 Context for operations 3.2 Limited Operations 4. Priority Areas 4.1 Food…

ICRC NEWS 42 Although peace talks between the Sierra Leone government and the United Revolutionary Front have not yet yielded any definite results, the February 1966 cease-fire remains officially in effect. With the relative calm of the last few months,…

WHAT: Today, a WFP Buffalo aircraft plus an ICRC aircraft evacuated all expatriate aid workers from Uvira. UNHCR gives a figure of 58 passengers. They cannot confirm the names of passengers but indicate that ALL expatriate aid workers were…

From Segun Adeyemi; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, (PANA) - The United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) will require less than its authorised total strength of 160 military personnel in carrying out its mandate in the West African country, UN…