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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…

By CHEGE MBITIRU Associated Press Writer GULU, Uganda (AP) -- A decade after winning a guerrilla war against corrupt rulers, President Yoweri Museveni brought Uganda from economic desolation to the free market. He won his first democratic electoral test by a…

From Peter Mwaura; PANA Staff Correspondent YAOUNDE, Cameroon (PANA) - The Organization of African Unity mission in strife-torn Burundi would not be able to avoid or contain a tragedy if one erupted there. In a report to the Council of…

Travel Advice Unit, Consular Division Foreign & Commonwealth Office 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Tel: 0171 238 4503/4504 Fax: 0171 238 4545 British tourists are advised not to visit Angola. Business visitors are advised that Luanda is calm and following the peace…

DATE=7/2/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-199645 TITLE=BURUNDI/ U.S. (L ONLY) BYLINE=SONJA PACE DATELINE=BUJUMBURA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED STATES STRONGLY SUPPORTS REGIONAL AFRICAN EFFORTS TO END ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN BURUNDI. THAT WAS THE MESSAGE SENIOR AMERICAN ENVOYS BROUGHT WITH THEM ON THEIR THREE DAY VISIT TO THE CENTRAL…

ARUSHA, Tanzania (Reuter) - Officials from five African states met Tuesday to draw up plans for a multinational force to stop bloodshed in Burundi. Tanzanian Defense Minister Edgar Maokola Majogo said Tuesday's talks followed foreign and defense ministers from Burundi, Ethiopia,…

UPDATE No. 1GENERAL: Following the temporary suspension of activities by the ICRC after the deaths of three of their delegates, the entire delegation of the ICRC pulled out of Burundi on 11 June after receiving threats the…