Reports

Friday, 21 June 1996: A two-week old ceasefire between warring factions is enabling UNICEF to provide humanitarian assistance to children and women in Liberia's war-ravaged capital of Monrovia. Responding to a serious water shortage, UNICEF has chlorinated 4,500 wells that…

[IRIN Note: despite the "draft" note on the original document, this is the final communique, adopted by the conference.] Draft 21/6/96 16:00 1. A round table conference of donors, coorganized by the Rwandan Government and UNDP, brought together Rwandan bilateral donor countries…

A. LIBERIA 1. Update a) General improvement of the security situation in Monrovia allows reopening of Spriggs Payne airport, but armed activities continue in several areas in the interior. b) A commercial vessel with refugees on board returns back to Monrovia after…

Donor pledges exceed US$627 million at the Round Table Conference Representatives of donor countries and multilateral organizations attending the Rwanda Round Table Conference in Geneva on 20 and 21 June pledged more than US$627 million towards the Government's 1996-98 medium term…

(FR) (McCall says time for other options on refugee camps) (2490) GENEVA -- "Genocide continues" in Rwanda, with "increasing frequency," a senior U.S. government official warned those attending a two-day round table conference examining problems afflicting that conflict-ridden country. In an address…

(FR) (Two-day Rwanda Roundtable meets in Geneva) (370) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- Donor countries pledged at least $500 million June 21 to a comprehensive three-year aid program to help rebuild Rwanda and encourage the estimated 1.5 million…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Burundian President, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, on Thursday again condemned the idea of partitioning the country between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority as the ultimate solution to the ethnic crisis in the country. "The seriousness of…

(No. 16 ACC/SCN, Geneva, 20 June 1996)(extracts) Burundi/Rwanda/Eastern Zaire Region: With the exception of Burundi and the newlydisplaced from Eastern Zaire, the nutritional situation in the region appears to be stable. The escalation of violence in Burundi is now affecting…

Thursday, 20 June 1996: The Rwandan Government will release about 400 children from prisons soon into a juvenile re-education centre at Gitagata, 40 kilometres south of the capital Kigali, according to Dan Toole, UNICEF Representative in Rwanda. The Minister of…