[Ugnet] DRC-Uganda: 15, 000 Refugees Now Fled Ituri Fighting, UNHCR Says

[Edward Mulindwa]

Let record show that Great Lakes has never ever been destabilized this much before the appearance of Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame.   The Onus is on you to inform the Governments financing these two killers to back off, for the population of Great Lakes has a right to be alive. And know this that The Government of United Kingdom plus other Western Governments that are financing these two killer machines (Rwanda and Uganda governments) are as equally responsible for the death of our people as those governments, and when peace return to Great Lakes as it will, they will be on the same Docket as the leaders of the governments they finance.   To those who have fought this war with me for now 20 years remember, every night that passes brings us closer to peace in Great Lakes, Do not give up for we have a light at the end of the tunnel, it is only the distance from us to it.   Em Toronto.  The Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"             Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" ----- Original Message ----- From: Matek Opoko To: ugandanet@kym.net ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:10 PM Subject: [Mwananchi] DRC-Uganda: 15,000 Refugees Now Fled Ituri Fighting, UNHCR Says DRC-Uganda: 15,000 Refugees Now Fled Ituri Fighting, UNHCR Says UN Integrated Regional Information Networks January 17, 2005 Posted to the web January 17, 2005 Kampala The number of people forced by fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to flee to Uganda has now reached 15,000, and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is trying to convince many of them to relocate farther inland, a UNHCR official said on Monday. "We still have over five thousand in Nkondo at the shores of Lake Albert, but we have also established that farther south, on the shores of Lake Edward at Ishasa, there are ten thousand more of them," Roberta Russo, the UNHCR spokeswoman in Kampala, Uganda, said. She told IRIN that the refugees, many of them women and children, were reluctant to move from Nkondo, a landing site on Lake Albert, to the refugee settlement of Kyaka II, without the consent of their husbands, who remained across the border. Russo said 2,500 of the refugees at Nkondo had confirmed their willingness to move and 156 were moved on Saturday and Sunday, while a team has been sent to Ishasa to assess the means of transport needed to relocate the refugees to Kyaka II, on a journey of about 400 km. The government has been carrying out security screening of all arrivals before they can be moved inland, where real humanitarian screening will then take place. UN agencies and other relief organisation have gone to the area to assess humanitarian needs, including water and sanitation. Relevant Links Central Africa East Africa Uganda Refugees and Displacement Congo-Kinshasa Civil War and Communal Conflict The Ugandan military said on Friday that, three days earlier, between 5,000 and 7,000 people at Nkondo had started fleeing clashes between Mayi-Mayi militias and Congolese rebels in Ituri, a northeastern district of the DRC that has been a theatre of fighting in recent years. [ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations ] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Mwananchi is an open forum that discusses/updates you on the latest news in Africa. It is a group that is made up of 900 members worldwide. To join it simply go to http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/mwananchi Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mwananchi/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

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