Informes

By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- After months of debate and revisions, Rwandan lawmakers have passed a bill that opens the way for the trials of more than 80,000 detainees accused of genocide. More than 500,000 people…

(FR) (Rwanda VP Kagame also addresses sanctions) (480) By Charles W. Corey USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The July 25 coup that occurred in Burundi will not prove to be "a solution" to that country's problems, Paul Kagame, Rwanda's vice president and…

From Ferdinand BigumandonderaPANA Correspondent BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - The rationing of Petrol started Saturday, in the few filling stations still open for business in Bujumbura, where public transport is increasingly becoming irregular. Under the measure, each motorist is entitled to a maximum…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Burundi's ethnic Tutsi military rulers vowed to hunt down Hutu rebels they said killed at least 32 people and wounded 28 in an attack in the country's war-zone Cibitoke province Saturday. But the government of Tutsi…

By BARBARA CROSSETTE UNITED NATIONS -- Rwanda's most powerful political figure, Vice President Paul Kagame, said in New York on Thursday that his country would join other African nations in putting pressure on the new military government in Burundi by…

by Mungo Soggot Johannesburg - The Rwandan government is monitoring two war criminals who are living in South Africa, and it believes there could be more lurking among the many Rwandan refugees in this country. But the absence of an extradition…

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With African nations pressing sanctions and commercial airline traffic virtually ended, the Clinton administration is advising American residents of troubled Burundi to make plans to leave the country while the airport is still open. There are about…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Rwanda said on Friday it was cutting road and air links with Burundi but Burundi's military ruler said he was ready for all consequences of his coup despite the tightening noose of sanctions. Rwanda's Tutsi-led government…

Ambassador James Jonah, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Liberia, briefed correspondents this afternoon on the situation in that country. He said the United Nations was primarily there to assist the efforts of the Economic Community of West African States' Monitoring…

I. Background 1. While the situation in Monrovia has remained calm after the fighting in April and May, factional fighting and victimization of the civilian population has continued in both western and southeastern counties. All members of the Council of…