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KINSHASA, July 27 (Reuter) - Zaire on Saturday stepped up security checks on aid consignments after saying it had found a consignment of weapons for the Rwandan government army in a cargo plane chartered by aid organisations. Interior Minister Kamanda…

(FR) (Preparing contingency plan) (540) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is watching the situation in Burundi "extremely carefully" and preparing a contingency plan to assist as many as 300,000…

By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR. AIROBI, Kenya -- After two days of confusion about who was running Burundi, the Tutsi-dominated army announced a coup on Thursday, named a new president and dissolved Parliament. The Burundi capital, Bujumbura, was reported to be…

BY MARK HUBAND THE military coup which brought Pierre Buyoya, Burundi's former military President, back to power in the strife-torn Central African country is the most promising sign in a bleak picture. While reports portray him as a Tutsi "strongman",…

Thérèse Gastaut presented a general overview of the situation in Burundi 2) WHO indicated that they had set up "Crises cells" on stand-by in Geneva 3) IOM reported on the transportation of refugees back to Rwanda (questions related to the treatment…

FROM JAMES BONE IN NEW YORK THE United Nations is struggling to assemble a 20,000-strong multinational force to establish buffer zones and "safe areas" in Burundi amid fears of renewed genocide. Senior UN officials complain that the main Western countries…

FROM SAM KILEY IN BUJUMBURA AND JAMES BONE IN NEW YORK THE Burundian Army yesterday deposed the Hutu President and announced the installation of Pierre Buyoya, a moderate Tutsi, as transitional head of state, in what appeared to have…

FROM SAM KILEY IN BUJUMBURA THERE were fears last night that the central African republic of Burundi was about to be engulfed by new Hutu-Tutsi atrocities following a coup by the army. The military closed the country's borders and airports and…

After yesterday's military coup ACTIONAID has called on the United Nations to take immediate responsibility for helping Hutus and Tutsis who have had to leave their homes. It is estimated that there were already one million displaced people in…

(Excerpt) 26 July 1996 DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY Sylvana Foa, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by stating that the Secretary-General…