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The information contained in this report was provided by the Office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Operational Activities in Burundi, UN Agencies, International Organisations and NGOs GENERAL Following the invitation of former President Julius Nyerere and of current President Benjamin…

DATE=6/29/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-199498 TITLE=RWANDA/MASSACRE-REFUGEES (S&L) BYLINE=CHRIS TOMLINSON DATELINE=KIGALI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: ETHNIC VIOLENCE CONTINUES TO CAUSE HAVOC IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION OF AFRICA. CHRIS TOMLINSON IN KIGALI REPORTS THAT SUSPECTED RWANDAN HUTU MILITANTS ARE CONTINUING TO KILL ETHNIC TUTSIS IN RWANDA, WHILE BURUNDIAN HUTU…

BUJUMBURA (Reuter) - A Hutu rebel group has offered a $1,000 bounty for the head of every American killed in Rwanda, and $1,500 for that of U.S. Ambassador to Kigali Robert Gribbin, senior Western diplomats said Saturday. U.S. embassy officials…

Arusha, Tanzania - A regional summit of Burundi's neighbours has agreed to provide the war-torn tiny central African nation with military assistance to prevent simmering ethnic violence from exploding into another bloodbath like in neighbouring Rwanda, which has a similar…

Kigali - An attempt to bring to trial suspects for Rwanda's 1994 ethnic genocide has been postponed for several more weeks due to a dispute between the Rwandan National Assembly and the government, deputy speaker of the Rwandan parliament…

From B. Szynalski, Director, Operational Policy and Support Division. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Ms. B. Karlstrom Dorph, Director, Resources Division, WFP Rome (Ph. 39 6 5228 2500) A. LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE 1. Liberia a) Security improves…

B. REGIONAL OPERATION FOR BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE AND TANZANIA 1. General a) WFP Regional Logistics meeting held in Bukavu to review existing logistics contingency plans for Rwanda and Burundi, and create a logistics contingency plan for Masisi, Zaire. 2. Burundi a) Insecurity continues…

Washington, DC - Following is the prepared testimony on Liberia by acting assistant secretary of State for African Affairs William H. Twaddell before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa. I am pleased to report that the situation in Liberia…

BACKGROUND PAPER ON BURUNDI I Political/diplomatic initiatives 1. The second round of the Mwanza Talks, chaired by former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, were held last week. 2. The meeting proved inconclusive due to the refusal of Government negotiators to meet with a…

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the Special Envoy, Kigali Main Developments Three International Committee of the Red Cross delegates were killed in an ambush as they worked to bring water to the affected populations in Burundi's Cibitoke province on…