30 December, 1996 Project Purpose Project Beneficiaries - Approximately 23,000 internally displaced people in 18 camps, 20% of whom are under the age of 5, in Muyinga province. Project Activities ...
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More Than 70 Killed In Southern Burundi
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - More than 78 people have been killed in Kizuka, southern Burundi, 70 km from Bujumbura, army spokesman Col. Minani Longin announced on Thursday. The massacre was...
Burundians To Contribute Towards War Effort
From Ferdinand Bigumandondera; PANA Correspondent BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Burundian public workers will effective January 1997 have to contribute 6 percent of their monthly wages towards the...
African Nations Losing Will to Punish Burundi
Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI -- Burundi is filled with ghost towns and ghost roads. One of them is Route 1. Once a major thoroughfare, the road,...
Burundi Humanitarian Situation Report No. 38 December 11 to December 18
African leaders met in Nairobi December 16 and 17 to discuss the crisis in the Great Lakes Region. However, contrary to the expectations of the Buyoya government and others, neither the conflict...
Burundi Team Leaves For Talks in Tanzania
From Ferdinand Bigumandondera; PANA Correspondent BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - A Burundi government delegation left Bujumbura Thursday for Arusha, Tanzania, accompanied by representatives of three...
Burundi Army Killed 1,100 in Oct.-Nov.
GENEVA (Reuter) - The United Nations on Wednesday said Burundi's army had killed at least 1,100 people, including hundreds of Hutu returnees from eastern Zaire in October and November, based on its...
Towards a Crisis Prevention Plan for Central Africa
Background The present humanitarian drama in eastern Zaire and the urgent need to deliver humanitarian relief to vulnerable populations in the area have rightly if somewhat belatedly attracted the...
Crop and Food Supply Situation in Burundi
OVERVIEW An FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Burundi in October 1996 to review the outcome of the second season harvest, forecast the third season production, update the 1996 food...
Burundi rebels report fierce fighting
By Buchizya Mseteka NAIROBI, Dec 1 (Reuter) - Burundi's main Hutu rebel group said on Sunday its forces were engaging army positions in five main regions of the central African nation and fierce...
Burundi Humanitarian Situation Report No. 37, 14-27 November 1996
The information contained in this report was provided by the Office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Operational Activities in Burundi, UN Agencies, International Organisations and...
Burundi' President Willing To Talk To Rival Groups
KAMPALA, Uganda (PANA) - Burundi's President Pierre Buyoya, who met President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda on Friday, is willing to start peace talks with other factions in his troubled country. Buyoya,...
UN Human Rights Field Operation Told of Massacre in Burundi
On November 21, members of the United Nations Human Rights Field Operation in Burundi (HRFOB) visited Cibitoke province where they learned for the first time of a massacre of returnees which occurred...
Bujumbura Call Off Meeting ON Burundi Crisis
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - A meeting which was to be attended by parties to the dispute in Burundi initially scheduled for Thursday in Arusha, Tanzania, at the initiative of former Tanzanian...
Burundi Humanitarian Situation Report No. 36 7-12 Nov.1996
The humanitarian impact of the turmoil in eastern Zaire continues to spill over into Burundi. There has been a marked increase in both the number and size of skirmishes between Hutu rebels and...
Update on the Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced People No.2
This is the second in a series of updates which will be published at six week intervals between full RNIS reports, which are now published every three months. The update is based on information...
WFP Emergency Report No. 44 of 1996: Burundi
PART I - HIGHLIGHTS (Details below in Part II) A. EAST AFRICA: REGIONAL OPERATION FOR BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE AND TANZANIA 2. Burundi a) Some 10,500 Burundians from refugee camps in Uvira area...
Burundi Update Four
Background Burundi, a small land-locked country in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Zaire to the west, and Tanzania to the south and east. About the size...
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Refugees Scatter as Tutsi Rebels Overrun Aid Hub, With Rwanda's Help
Jennifer Ludden, Special to The Christian Science Monitor KIGALI, RWANDA -- As they swept north along Zaire's border with Rwanda and Burundi last week, Zairean Tutsi rebels known as the Banyamulenge...
Dozens of Corpses Washed Up on Burindi Lake
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...