Tag: Zaire
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SPECIAL REPORT ON RWANDA: 1 Dies Every Minute
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Tuesday, July 26, 1994 GOMA, Zaire – The skies here were darkened by aircraft yesterday bearing desperately needed food and medical supplies to Rwandan refugees dying at a rate of one per minute in the squalid camps below. But the water purifiers needed to combat the…
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RWANDAN CRISIS-HORROR OF THE CHILDREN: Thousands Are Dying, More Are Orphaned
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Wednesday, July 27, 1994 GOMA. ZAIRE – Her tiny torso was wrapped in dirty rags. No one knew her name, where she came from or what became of her parents. She could not have been more than 6 months old. Last week French soldiers at Goma…
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Refugees Are Dying Too Fast to be Buried
by GENE MUSTAIN in New York and MICHAEL O. ALLEN in Goma, Zaire, Daily News Staff Writers | Wednesday July 27, 1994 Aid workers battling death, famine and pestilence of the Rwanda refugee crisis faced a new problem yesterday–a shortage of graves. The raging cholera epidemic in the squalid camps near the border backwater town…
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A Hell Without Fire
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Thursday, July 28, 1994 GOMA, Zaire – The heart of darkness lies beneath a smoky volcano. It starts at the edge of a shimmering lake and stretches across a few miles of flowering bushes and dark rocky plain, proof of Mount Nyiragongo’s periodic tantrums. It would…
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AFRICAN EPILOGUE: Dreams of Death
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN Amidst lesser mountains, Kilimanjaro sat mysteriously in the distance, its brooding, mammoth expanse shrouded by clouds that streaked the rising sun. It was barely dawn at this wildlife reserve, and the elephants were headed out to the swamps. I must confess that the burden I had carried in my heart to…