Reports

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The humanitarian NGO "Medecins Sans Frontieres" (Doctors Without Borders) has called on countries neighbouring Burundi to respect the rules of international law on economic sanctions, by allowing into the country, "immediately and without restriction, essential primary…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0284 REPATRIATION TO RWANDA UNHCR reports that from Thursday 1st August to Monday 12 August, there have been a total of 23,286 Rwandan refugees voluntarily repatriating from Magara camp in Burundi. This compares to an average rate of…

AI INDEX AFR 47/17/96 While unarmed civilians continue to be massacred in Burundi at the hands of the security forces and armed groups, a similar pattern of alarming intensity is emerging again in neighbouring Rwanda, only two years after the…

ROME (AP) -- Tanzania agreed Monday to allow humanitarian aid into neighboring Burundi, despite sanctions imposed by east and central African nations to oust Burundi's new military regime. Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda imposed sanctions, suspended air traffic and blocked…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Anxious foreigners and Burundians scrambled Monday for tickets on the last scheduled commercial flight out of the sanctions-hit Central African state of Burundi. At the Sabena office in the capital, Burundian businessmen in crumpled suits, Rwandans,…

by Clarice Taylor, CARE Emergency Assistance Unit Information Officer SIERRA LEONE Following general elections in Sierra Leone in March 1996, a cease-fire was negotiated, paving the way for last month's peace talks to resume in Abidjan between the Government of…

by Clarice Taylor, CARE Emergency Assistance Unit Information Officer BURUNDI Beleaguered by civil conflict for the past three years, Burundi was the scene of a bloodless coup d'etat on July 24. After being pelted by stones at the funeral 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 441125 Fax: +254 2 448816 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 21 in a series of weekly reports from…

From Ferdinand Bigumandondera, PANA Correspondent BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Some 20 Burundian women's associations and international humanitarian organisations Sunday in Bujumbura called for the immediate lifting of sanctions against Burundi. The sanctions were decided on by the Arusha (northern Tanzania) summit of…

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Shooting between militiamen squabbling over looted goods at a military base sparked a stampede of terrified civilians who feared a resumption of fighting in the capital. Looting has plagued Monrovia since April when fighting between rival factions…