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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuter) - The Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity warned Thursday that any coup in Burundi where the president has taken refuge in the U.S. ambassador's residence would be met by force. ''Any attempt to take…

Oxfam warned today that Burundi is teetering dangerously on the brink of a 'double genocide' with both extremes of the political and ethnic divide committing widespread human rights abuses. The charity claimed that if the international community failed to…

[ Note: This item is extracted from the full briefing.] U.S. Department of State 96/07/25 Daily Press Briefing Office of the Spokesman Briefer: Nicholas Burns BURUNDI Curfew Imposed/Major Pierre Buyoya Named Interim President/ National Assembly Suspended/U.S. Support for Arusha Peace Process............................................1-2 Amb Wolpe to Return…

by Makur Kot Dhuor, APS Correspondent Nairobi - Early last month, a fierce fight broke out between two rival Sudanese groups at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camp near the Kenya-Sudan border, resulting in deaths and injuries.…

(FR) ('Cycle of violence must cease') (210) UNITED NATIONS -- The "cycle of violence must cease" in Burundi, Madeleine K. Albright, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, announced July 24. Albright's comments followed the release of a Security Council presidential…

By STEFAN LOVGREN Associated Press Writer BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) -- The Tutsi-led military has staged an apparent coup against the president of Burundi, who took refuge today at the U.S. ambassador's residence, a top presidential advisor said. "The president feared for…

From Yahya el Hassan; PANA Correspondent KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanaes army announced here Wednesday that two of its soldiers got killed in Sunday's battle near the border with Eritrea. Army spkoesman Gen. Mohamed Sanousi Ahmed said in a communique,…

Arusha, Tanzania - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has charged five more people allegedly for involvement in the 1994 massacres of between 500,000 and one million people in Rwanda, most of them minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus, by…

Sylvana Foa, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by saying that the Under-Secretary for Administration and Management, Joseph Connor, would brief correspondents on the financial situation of the United Nations and where it stood at present. (His…

EAST AFRICA AND THE HORN Heavy Rains in Ethiopia Cause Flooding in Somalia and Sudan In Somalia there is heavy flooding along the Juba River, the effects of which have been accentuated by the deliberate breaching of dikes earlier in…