ICRC Activities in Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo: 1994 - 3 February 1999 (International Committee of the Red Cross , 124 p.): Zaire: back in Kisangani

ICRC Activities in Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo: 1994 - 3 February 1999 (International Committee of the Red Cross , 124 p.)

		(introduction...)
		Zaire
		Zaire/Rwanda/Burundi: ICRC voices acute anxiety
		Zaïre: Masisi - a forgotten conflict
		Zaire: ICRC resumes activities in Masisi
		Zaire, (delegation also covers the Congo)
		Zaire: tragic plane crash in Kinshasa
		Rwanda/Zaire: “ICRC transit service”
		Zaire: new humanitarian emergency in North Kivu
		Update No. 96/1 on ICRC activities in Rwanda
		South Kivu: ICRC calls for restraint
		Update No. 96/1 on ICRC activities in Zaire
		Kivu: a major human tragedy in the making
		Tribute to Zairian Red Cross volunteers
		Great Lakes Region: assistance in Goma
		Breaking the humanitarian deadlock in Kivu
		Update No. 96/2 on ICRC activities in Zaire
		Update No. 96/3 on ICRC activities in Zaire
		Great Lakes: ICRC ready to act
		Update No. 96/4 on ICRC activities in Zaire
		Great Lakes: volunteers in action
		Zaire: ICRC operation gets under way
		Update No. 96/5 on ICRC activities in Zaire
		Update No. 96/6 on ICRC activities in Zaire
		Update No. 96/7 on ICRC activities in Zaire
		Great lakes: displaced: a zairian’s firsthand account “I had to cover 220 miles on foot”
		Update No. 96/8 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 9 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Rwanda: 1,000 children already reunited with their families
		Update No. 10 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 11 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 12 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 13 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 14 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 15 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Zaire: ICRC still only organization working in Shabunda
		Update No. 16 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Zaire, (delegation also covers the Congo)
		Update No. 1 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Rwanda: refugees return to Kamembe
		Rwanda: nearly 8,000 children reunited with their families
		Update No. 97/02 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 97/03 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian conflict
		Update No. 97/04 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian conflict
		Zaire: back in Kisangani
		Zaire: ICRC demands access to conflict victims
		Zaire: airlift for displaced Zairians
		Zaire: Lives of thousands of refugees at stave
		Zaire: More than 2,000 Zairians back home
		Update No. 97/6 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian conflict
		Zaire
		Zaire: Ten volunteers of the Zairian Red Cross killed in Kenge
		Update No. 97/8 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian conflict
		Zaire: More work for the tracing agency
		Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire): After the storm
		Update No. 9 on ICRC activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and neighbouring countries
		Rwanda: Do you know this child?
		Democratic Republic of Congo: Homeward bound
		Update No. 97/10 on ICRC activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire)
		Brazzaville and Kinshasa: Medical aid on both sides of the river Congo
		Update No. 2 on ICRC activities in Congo-Brazzaville
		Brazzaville/Kinshasa: Relief work progressing
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: Priority in Kivu given to clean water and medical care
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: Displaced people go home on barges
		Democratic Republic of the Congo
		ICRC denounces killing of employee in Kinshasa
		The ICRC condemns and deplores two serious security incidents
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC opens office in Bunia
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: Health programme in Oriental province
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: inauguration of limb-fitting workshop in Kinshasa
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC appeals for compliance with humanitarian rules
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: First visits to detainees and water for population
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: Water and war
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC gains access to further place of detention in Kinshasa
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: Visits to detainees and family news
		Democratic Republic of the Congo
		Central African Republic: Congolese civilians arrive in Bangui
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC opens an office in Kalemie

Zaire: back in Kisangani

27 March 1997
ICRC News 97/11

ICRC delegates returned to Kisangani on 20 March for the first time since rebel forces captured the city five days previously. There they carried out a survey to enable the ICRC to establish operational priorities. They found that there are some 25,000 displaced people in the Kisangani area who need help to return to their places of origin. A second priority is access to detainees, including large numbers of people arrested when the city fell.

While all international staff from the ICRC, the UN and various non-governmental organizations were withdrawn from Kisangani, the Zairian Red Cross continued working tirelessly to take wounded people to hospital and give first aid. Now back in Kisangani, the ICRC will fully support local Red Cross medical work.

To restore contact between people who fled the fighting and relatives who stayed behind, the ICRC will establish a Red Cross message service in conjunction with the Zairian Red Cross. For those who decide to embark on the 700-km journey home, aid stations will be set up along the main roads to the east. The most vulnerable - children, the elderly, pregnant women and wounded people - will be transported by lorry as far as road conditions permit.

Delegates are maintaining their presence in Lubumbashi, though they are spending the nights in Ndola, across the border in Zambia. Some staff based in Kinshasa have been redeployed to Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, to prepare an operations base in case the situation deteriorates in the Zairian capital.