About 300 Rwandan refugees arrived today in Kisangani, and are staying in the General Hospital compound.
Food is intended for internally displaced people and the newly arrived refugees.
IRIN erroneously referred to Cepza Celpa as a French NGO in Up-date 113. The Ministry of Defence also denied the fall of Kindu, and denied that rebels were 100 kilometers from Kisangani. Speculation continues over the fate of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan and Burundian refugees in the conflict zone, but no hard information is available to identify the location and number of refugee groups. News agencies say large groups of people are reportedly heading towards Kisangani. The UN High Commissioners for Refugees Sagata Ogata has hailed the offer by Zairean rebel leader Laurent-Desire Kabila to help repatriate Rwandan refugees by establishing a safe corridor.