Zaire

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the humanitarian crisis in eastern Zaire, which is growing more catastrophic by the day. As the U-S and other nations debate how to mount an emergecy relief operation, reports say more and more wandering refugees are dying every day. More than a million Rwandan refugees—and an unknown number of Zairean citizens — have been forced to flee fighting between the Zairean army and Rwandan-backed Zairean rebels.