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NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuter) - Burundian Hutu refugees fleeing into Zaire say they saw Rwandan government troops in Burundi's northwestern Cibitoke province, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday. The reported sightings of Rwandan troops in Burundi backed accusations this week from…

The UN and the donor community need a regional plan to reverse the cycle of genocide BY Iain Guest The recent murder of three Swiss Red Cross officials in Burundi should remind policymakers that this obscure little war is actually vicious…

This report includes: A) General: Resourcing Situation B) Liberia C) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania From B. Szynalski, Director, Operational Policy and Support Division. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Mr. F. Strippoli or Mr. M. Crosthwaite,…

AI Index: AFR 54/13/96 UA 170/96 SUDAN Galal Hamid, former Director of the Gezira (agriculture) Scheme, Taj al-Sir Ahmad Abdallahi, President of Ahli Football Club, al-Kheir Ali Arbab, doctor, Abdeen Miheisi, architect and engineer, Osman Abdelgader, trade unionist, Mohamed Abdelghafar,…

From Peter Mwaura; PANA Staff Correspondent YAOUNDE, Cameroon (PANA) - Hundreds of civilians, both Tutsi and Hutu, are being killed each week in Burundi by the military and armed groups, Amnesty International said here Thursday. "Unless the OAU provides bold…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Several thousand university students in Bujumbura on Thursday demonstrated against proposals to send a regional peacekeeping force into Burundi. The proposal was made last week at a regional summit in Arusha, northern Tanzania, to discuss the…

News Service 122/96 AI INDEX: IOR 63/04/96 Yaounde -- Amnesty International representatives attending the 64th Council of Ministers Meeting of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), being held in Yaounde, Cameroon from 1-5 July 1996, are urging African States to take…

Background Situated in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, Burundi covers an area of about 28,000 square kilometres. Its population of just over six million is divided into two ethnic groups: the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis, who…

DATE=7/3/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-199678 TITLE=BURUNDI REBELS (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: REBELS IN BURUNDI SAY RWANDAN TROOPS HAVE INVADED THE COUNTRY AND ARE FIGHTING ALONGSIDE BURUNDI'S GOVERNMENT FORCES. VOA'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS THE REBELS ARE SAYING THEY ARE PREPARED TO FIGHT RWANDANS AND TROOPS FROM…

(FR) (Leaving region where ICRC delegates were killed last month) (520) By Wendy C. Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- Around 4,400 Burundi refugees have arrived in Zaire and Rwanda since the weekend, saying their homes have been burned and their relatives…