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01 Feb 1999

Congo + 6 others
IRIN Update No. 599 for Central and Eastern Africa

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa
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e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: Government shells city suburbs

Heavy fighting continued over the weekend in Congo-Brazzaville, with reports that Ninja and Cocoye militia had infiltrated the city. In an attempt to create "security zones", government forces have been forcibly ejecting people from their homes, particularly

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01 Feb 1999

Congo + 7 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 599 sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est

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— IRIN
N A T I O N S U N I E S
Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
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CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE

Les autorités bombardent des banlieues de la ville

De violents combats se sont poursuivis ce week-end au Congo-Brazzaville, les milices Ninja et Cocoyes ayant infiltré la capitale, selon certaines informations. Pour essayer de créer des "zones de sécurité", les forces régulières ont été obligées d'expulser les

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29 Jan 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 other
DR Congo: Lost and bewildered

Report
— IFRC
IFRC WEEKLY NEWS 04/99
29 January 1999
The children stood hand in hand, lost and bewildered. Around them in the early rainy season mud milled hundreds of Congolese, fresh arrivals in Lugufu, a Red Cross refugee camp in western Tanzania. "So who are you?" asked a Red Cross worker, kneeling to speak to them. The little girl said her name was Riziki. She was ten. Her brother, Jean-Marie, was 11. They were from a once obscure village in South Kivu now known around the world as a possible scene of indiscriminate killing, and they were alone.
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29 Jan 1999

Burundi + 6 others
IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-Up 4-99 covering the period 22-29 Jan 1999

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for Central and Eastern Africa
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e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

TANZANIA/DRC: DRC refugees stream into Tanzania

Thousands of DRC refugees are streaming back into Tanzania barely one year after their repatriation, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in Nairobi on Wednesday. About 800 refugees have been arriving at the Lake Tanganyika port of Kigoma

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29 Jan 1999

Burundi + 7 others
IRIN-CEA: Bulletin hebdomadaire No 4-99 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est

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— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN
pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
Tel: +254 2 622 147
Fax: +254 2 622 129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

IRIN-CEA: Bulletin hebdomadaire No 4-99 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (du vendredi 22 au jeudi 28 janvier 1999)

TANZANIE/REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO (RDC)

Afflux de réfugiés congolais en Tanzanie

Des milliers de réfugiés congolais affluent à nouveau en Tanzanie, un an à peine après leur rapatriement, a fait savoir

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29 Jan 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 others
UNHCR Briefing Notes: Update on DR Congo and Kenya

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations.
Congolese in Tanzania

More than 30,800 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo have now left South Kivu for Tanzania since the rebellion began last August. UNHCR staff in Kigoma report that the flow shows no signs of abating, with five or six vessels arriving daily in Tanzania and refugees saying that a lack of boats and the cost of the fare ($10 US) for the crossing are all that is stopping more Congolese from leaving.

Violence in Kenyan camps

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29 Jan 1999

Burundi + 6 others
Bulletin quotidien No. 598 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
Tel: +254 2 622 147
Fax: +254 2 622 129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

IRIN-CEA: Bulletin quotidien No. 598 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (vendredi 29 janvier 1999)
RWANDA

Amélioration de la sécurité dans le nord-ouest, selon Africa Rights

Des soldats rwandais auraient massacré 140 personnes lors d'une opération de contre-insurrection organisée le 19 décembre dernier dans la préfecture de Gisenyi, a fait savoir

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29 Jan 1999

Burundi + 7 others
IRIN Update No. 598 for Central and Eastern Africa

Report
— IRIN
U N I T E D N A T I O N S
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa
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e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

RWANDA: Africa Rights says security improved in northwest

Rwandan soldiers massacred 140 people in a counter-insurgency operation in Gisenyi on 19 December, a briefing document on the northwest region by African Rights alleges. The report released today (Friday) said rebels, being pursued by the army, hid among

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29 Jan 1999

Burundi + 3 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 04 of 1999: East and Central Africa: Burundi, Tanzania, DR Congo and Congo/Brazzaville

Report
— World Food Programme
This report includes: A) Colombia earthquake B) Sierra Leone C) East and Central Africa: Burundi, Tanzania, DR Congo and Congo/Brazzaville D) Sudan E) Iraq F) Afghanistan G) CIS: Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia).
From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service. Available on the Internet on the WFP Home Page at http://www.wfp.org/ or by electronic mail from Deborah.Hicks@wfp.org (fax 39 06 6513 2837). For information on resources, donors are requested to contact Aleesa.Blum@wfp.org
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28 Jan 1999

Central African Republic + 1 other
Congolese troops loot Central African town

Report
— Reuters - AlertNet
BANGUI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Congolese troops fleeing advancing rebels in the former Zaire have fled across the border into Central African Republic, looting and harassing local people, residents and church sources said on Thursday.
The member of parliament for the area, Charles Armel Doubane, told Reuters that 2,200 soldiers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo had entered the town of Zemio on January 8.

They had been based in Gbadolite, the northern Congolese hometown of the ex-Zaire's late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, which is just across the border from Zemio, a town of

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28 Jan 1999

Central African Republic + 4 others
IRIN Update No. 597 for Central and Eastern Africa

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for Central and Eastern Africa
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Fax: +254 2 622129
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Archbishop protests Bethany arrests

The Archbishop of Kinshasa has claimed that the people of Rwandan or Tutsi background seized from the Bethany centre in Kinshasa on 12 January were there at the request of the government and were awaiting "repatriation".

He has protested the raid on a church

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28 Jan 1999

Congo + 1 other
WFP forced to launch additional food airlifts to Brazzaville to stem growing humanitarian crsisis

Report
— World Food Programme
Abidjan -- The UN World Food Programme today resumed its airlift to the beleaguered city of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo (ROC), to halt the rapidly deteriorating situation gripping over 50,000 people.
This morning the agency began a 1,000-ton food airlift, one of the largest to the Central Africa region in over a year. The operation utilizes five Antonov aircraft making daily food shuttles to Brazzaville, from the port city of Pointe Noire, where WFP had pre-positioned emergency food stocks last August in anticipation of continued conflict in the region.
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28 Jan 1999

Congo + 5 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information no 597 sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN
pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
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REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CINGO (RDC)

L'archevêque condamne les arrestations de Bethany

L'archevêque de Kinshasa a déclaré que les personnes d'origine rwandaise ou tutsie arrêtées au centre de Bethany à Kinshasa, le 12 janvier dernier, se trouvaient là-bas à la demande des autorités congolaises et attendaient d'être rapatriées.

Le prélat a protesté contre le coup de

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27 Jan 1999

Congo + 4 others
IRIN Update No. 596 for Central and Eastern Africa

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for Central and Eastern Africa
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e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

TANZANIA/DRC: DRC refugees stream into Tanzania

Thousands of DRC refugees are streaming back into Tanzania barely one year after their repatriation, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in Nairobi today (Wednesday). About 800 refugees have been arriving at the Lake Tanganyika

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27 Jan 1999

Angola + 1 other
Angolan troops, rebels battle for strategic northern town

Report
— Agence France-Presse
by Manuel Muanza
LUANDA, Jan 27 (AFP) - UNITA rebels on Wednesday established control of the strategic far northern town of Mbanza-Congo, Angola's Defence Minister Pedro Sebastiao said, after reports of heavy fighting from several sources.

Residents who arrived in Luanda late on Tuesday after fleeing the town said that it had already fallen to rebels of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) led by Jonas Savimbi.

However, prior to General Sebastiao's statement to parliament, army sources refused to give any details of military

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27 Jan 1999

Burundi + 4 others
UNHCR Country Updates: Great Lakes

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country Updates - Great Lakes - 27 January 1999
  • UNHCR reduces staff presence in Congo Brazzaville after fighting obliges U.N. to declare security phase 4
  • Congolese refugees begin to return from Bangui, to Equateur Province (DRC)
  • Numbers of Congolese (DRC) refugees arriving in Kigoma continue to rise
  • U.N. Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator travels to the region to discuss humanitarian intervention in the DRC
CONGO BRAZZAVILLE

Confrontations between the army and militias supporting former President Lissouba and Premier Kolelas degenerated during

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27 Jan 1999

Congo + 6 others
Bulletin quotidien No. 596 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN
pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
Tel: +254 2 622 147
Fax: +254 2 622 129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

TANZANIE/REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO (RDC)

Torrent de réfugiés congolais en Tanzanie

Des milliers de réfugiés congolais se déversent à nouveau en Tanzanie, un an à peine après leur rapatriement, a fait savoir ce mercredi à Nairobi la Fédération internationale des sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge. Près de 800 réfugiés arrivent

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27 Jan 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Special Rapporteur on human rights in Democratic Republic of Congo to visit country in February

Report
— UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Roberto Garreton, will be visiting that country from 16 to 23 February. This will be the Special Rapporteur's first mission to the Congo since the establishment of the Government led by President Laurent Desiré Kabila in May 1997. Mr. Garreton had repeatedly sought to be allowed to visit the country following his field mission to eastern Congo in early 1997. His most recent request was dated 7 January 1999. The Government announced
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26 Jan 1999

Burundi + 6 others
IRIN Update No. 595 for Central and Eastern Africa

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa
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Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

SUDAN: Yei bombed by Sudan air force

The Sudanese air force bombed the southern town of Yei today (Tuesday) for the second time in three days, Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) told IRIN. Five bombs landed close to the hospital run by NPA, but no casualties were reported. A Norwegian MP and union youth

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26 Jan 1999

Burundi + 6 others
Bulletin quotidien No. 595 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est

Report
— IRIN
N A T I O N S U N I E S
Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
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SOUDAN

Yei bombardée par l'armée de l'air soudanaise

L'armée de l'air soudanaise a bombardé ce mardi la ville d'Yei pour la deuxième fois en trois jours, a fait savoir à IRIN l'ONG norvégienne "Norwegian People's Aid" (NPA). Cinq bombes sont tombées près de l'hôpital géré par NPA, mais aucune victime

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