Rapports

MOGADISHU, Aug 11 - Heavy fighting between rival Somali factions resumed in earnest Sunday after more than a week of calm in the aftermath of the burial of former top warlord General Mohamed Farah Aidid. Reports reaching here said there…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Rwanda cut transport links with Burundi Friday and the U.S. Embassy in Bujumbura advised U.S. citizens to leave the country which is under siege from an economic blockade. In a further blow to the new Tutsi…

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 Yahya El-HassanPANA Correspondent KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has said there were no justifications for a United Nations sanctions against the country as it has done its best to comply with demands made by the world body. The…

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…

Somali faction leader Osman Hassan Ato dismissed as "illegitimate" the election of Hussein Mohamed Aideed as president of a self-declared government and successor to his late father, Mohamed Farah Aideed. Ato, a successful Somali businessman who funded the elder Aideed until…

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…