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...House passed a resolution by voice vote calling on President Clinton to end U.S. humanitarian operations "in or around" Rwanda by Oct. 7. Several lawmakers, their attention focused on a pending U.S. invasion of Haiti, said they wanted to avoid entanglements abroad. Clinton has authorized $250 million in Rwandan aid since April, and only 670 U.S. troops remain...
...nearly every disease organism known to medicine has become resistant to at least one antibiotic, and several are immune to more than one. One of the most alarming things about the cholera epidemic that has killed as many as 50,000 people in Rwandan refugee camps is that it involves a strain of bacterium that can't be treated with standard antibiotics. Relief agencies had to scramble for the right medicines, which gave the disease a head start in its lethal rampage...
...Rwandan Repatriation on Hold...
...temporarily suspended its Rwandan refugee repatriation effort in the camps surrounding Goma, Zaire. The move came after Hutu extremists assaulted a group of big-game trackers who had asked to be taken back to their homes in Rwanda's celebrated mountain gorilla reserve. The violence escalated when Zairian gangs looted aid supplies from an air base near Goma. "We seem to be operating in a virtual state of war," said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
...peacekeeping force of 2,500 French troops, based in southwestern Rwanda since June, prepared to hand over its mission to a U.N. contingent of Ghanaian and Ethiopian soldiers. But the pending transfer threatened to spark such a mass exodus of Hutu, fearful of the predominantly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic + Army, that Zaire closed its border at Bukavu in an effort to prevent another Goma...