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GOMA, Zaire — On a lakeshore outside this once pleasant resort town lies a ruined palace, testimony to the opulent lifestyle of President Mobutu Sese Seko and the violence that is pushing his… ...
Rwandan refugees line the route as American water trucks disembark Tuesday from a U.S. Air Force plane at the airport in Goma, Zaire. With clean water crucial to slowing the spread of cholera ...
IN THE instant city of displacement and death that has sprung up almost overnight in Goma, Zaire, there are now more Rwandan refugees than there are people living in Detroit.This statistical ...
Ethnic Tutsis from Zaire, bolstered by support from Rwanda’s Tutsi-led government, closed in on the key Zairian city of Goma.The fighting last week has pushed another half-million ethnic Hutu ...
A Rwandan woman collapses with her baby on her back on the road near Goma, Zaire, in 1994. Many Rwandans fled across the border into what was then Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of ...
WASHINGTON — “There are some stories that can never be told. This is one of them.” So began a gut-wrenching report from Goma, Zaire, by correspondent Jim Wooten on ABC-TV’s “Nightline ...
July 1994 - Cholera breaks out in Rwandan refugee camps near Goma, Zaire. October 2010 - Ten months after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, a cholera outbreak begins. About 800,000 cases and ...
A Zaire army officer was killed in a grenade attack in the eastern town of Goma on Monday and three more soldiers died in unrest that followed, a local journalist said.