Reports

From Peter Mwaura; PANA Staff Correspondent YAOUNDE, Cameroon (PANA) - Hundreds of civilians, both Tutsi and Hutu, are being killed each week in Burundi by the military and armed groups, Amnesty International said here Thursday. "Unless the OAU provides bold…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Several thousand university students in Bujumbura on Thursday demonstrated against proposals to send a regional peacekeeping force into Burundi. The proposal was made last week at a regional summit in Arusha, northern Tanzania, to discuss the…

News Service 122/96 AI INDEX: IOR 63/04/96 Yaounde -- Amnesty International representatives attending the 64th Council of Ministers Meeting of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), being held in Yaounde, Cameroon from 1-5 July 1996, are urging African States to take…

Background Situated in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, Burundi covers an area of about 28,000 square kilometres. Its population of just over six million is divided into two ethnic groups: the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis, who…

DATE=7/3/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-199678 TITLE=BURUNDI REBELS (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: REBELS IN BURUNDI SAY RWANDAN TROOPS HAVE INVADED THE COUNTRY AND ARE FIGHTING ALONGSIDE BURUNDI'S GOVERNMENT FORCES. VOA'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS THE REBELS ARE SAYING THEY ARE PREPARED TO FIGHT RWANDANS AND TROOPS FROM…

(No. 16 ACC/SCN, Geneva, 20 June 1996)(extracts) Liberia/Sierra Leone Region The recent violence in Monrovia has led to large-scale displacement to "safe" buildings or areas within the capital. The nutritional and health situation of many of those displaced has until recently…

27 June - 3 July 1996 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT WAS PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN LIBERIA UN AGENCIES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND NGOS SUMMARY 1218 IDPS ARRIVED AT THE…

(FR) (Leaving region where ICRC delegates were killed last month) (520) By Wendy C. Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- Around 4,400 Burundi refugees have arrived in Zaire and Rwanda since the weekend, saying their homes have been burned and their relatives…

Appeal $325,122 Disaster Bulletin #7632Q CWS is participating in response to this emergency through Action by Churches Together and is receiving and disbursing funds to support the ACT program. ACT is the international emergency response consortium of churches coordinated by…

From Peter Mwaura; PANA Staff Correspondent YAOUNDE, Cameroon (PANA) - The Organization of African Unity mission in strife-torn Burundi would not be able to avoid or contain a tragedy if one erupted there. In a report to the Council of…