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USA: BURUNDI OLYMPIC ATHLETES REACTION TO NEWS FROM HOME
Eng/French/Nat
Athletes from Burundi, competing in the Atlanta Olympics, reacted with concern Thursday to news of a military coup in their homeland.
They fear for the safety for their own families, and many have not been able to find out...
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ZAIRE: REFUGEES RETURN TO BURUNDI AND RWANDA
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Refugees from last year's conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi began returning home from Zaire on Friday under the supervision of the U-N High Commissioner for Refugees.
Until now it has been considered unsafe for them to return...
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BURUNDI: EXODUS OF REFUGEES COMES TO A HALT
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The exodus of Rwandan Hutus fleeing their sanctuary in Burundi came to a grinding halt today.
Around 50-thousand refugees are now camped by the roadside 58 kilometres (32 miles) from neighbouring Tanzania.
The border...
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Burundi - Buyoya warns against intervention
Burundi's new leader Pierre Buyoya on Friday (26/7) urged foreign
powers to refrain from military intervention in his country.
Buyoya's call for non-interference in Burundi's affairs came one
day after he seized power in an army-backed...
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BURUNDI: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RWANDA REFUGEE CRISIS
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An international conference opened in Burundi Wednesday to discuss how to restore stability to Rwanda after last year's massacres that claimed more than half a (m) million lives.
Topping the conference agenda is the refugee...
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BURUNDI: EUROPEAN AND US RESIDENTS URGED TO LEAVE
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European and American residents of Burundi are being urged by their governments to leave the central African nation before another outbreak of violence.
Fighting between the rival Hutus and Tutsis over the weekend left...
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Burundi - Displaced Hutus Hiding In The Hills
In Burundi, Hutus displaced by tribal violence at the
weekend were still hiding in the hills close to the capital,
Bujumbura on Thursday (30/3). Each day, hundreds make their way
down the steep hills to the markets on the edge of the...
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BURUNDI: ETHNIC VIOLENCE CLAIMS LIVES OF MORE THAN 300 PEOPLE
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Ethnic violence in Burundi has claimed the lives of more than 300 people, including many women and children.
They died when Hutu rebels attacked a camp full of Tutsis, launching a massacre in which victims were hacked with...
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WRAP Rice visits Ethiopia, presser, mtg with Somali PM ADDS Ethiopian PM
1. Wide of plane carrying US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arriving
2. Plane coming to a halt
3. Rice coming out of plane and being greeted by Metasbia Tadesse, Chief of Protocol in the Government of Ethiopia, US Ambassador to...
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BURUNDI: PEACE TALKS POSTPONED AFTER DEFENCE MINISTER KILLED
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Peace negotiations in Burundi have been postponed for two weeks after the defence minister was killed in a helicopter crash en route to the talks.
The talks between the Tutsi-led government and opposition leaders were...
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BURUNDI: UN FACT FINDING MISSION ENDS
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Burundi isn't in danger of sliding into the same bloodshed and chaos as its central African neighbour, Rwanda, , according to a United Nations Security Council delegation.
Its just ended a fact finding mission looking at...
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BURUNDI: CEASEFIRE IS UNLIKELY
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Mediators trying to end Burundi's seven-year civil war were unlikely to work out a cease-fire before President Bill Clinton's visit to neighbouring Tanzania on Monday and are now working for a less ambitious agreement.
Former...
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Background as Burundi installs transitional government
Bujumbura, Burundi- 25 July 1996
1. Wide empty street on day of coup that brought Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya to power, ousting Hutu President Sylvestre Ntibantunghanya
2. Closed shops
3. Padlocked shop door
4. Several people walking...
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S. AFRICA: MANDELA/BURUNDI REBEL LEADER DISCUSS CIVIL WAR
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela met with a Burundi rebel leader on Monday to discuss ways to end the deadlock in the country's ongoing civil war.
Jean-Bosco Ndayikengurukiye of the Forces For the Defence of...
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Eleven African countries agree US$2 billion for infrastructure, presser
1. Wide of Presidents of the Great Lakes Region walking into United Nations Gigiri convention centre
2. Mid of Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila and Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza signing agreement
3. Wide of...
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BURUNDI: MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD FOR MURDERED ARCHBISHOP RUHUNA
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A special Vatican envoy has presided over a memorial service for murdered Archbishop Joachim Ruhuna in Burundi.
Over two thousand listened to Cardinal Jozef Tomko urge the people of Burundi to stop the massacres which have...
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South Africa/Burundi - WTN Crew Killed
Gunmen in Burundi ambushed a Worldwide Television News (WTN) crew
on Thursday (6/4), killing three people and badly wounding a
fourth. The dead included WTN's Johannesburg bureau chief, Vincent
Francis. The crew was returning to...
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South African foreign minister comments on Burundi situation
1. Close-up of South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
2. Pan view as South African Minister leaves State Department
3. Cutaway officials
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nkosazana...
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KENYA: PEACE TALKS FOR BURUNDI
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Peace talks for Burundi, organised by Nelson Mandela, and hosted by Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi started on Wednesday in Nairobi.
The talks inspired optimism for a long awaited peace accord between the various fighting...
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TANZANIA: US SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER AFRICAN VISIT
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U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher raised the possibility Friday of international action in Burundi if the ethnic conflict there deteriorated into what he calls a humanitarian catastrophe.
Christopher made the...
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BURUNDI: TENSION BETWEEN TUTSIS AND HUTUS
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Mounting tension between Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi is threatening to plunge the small East African nation into a Rwanda-style civil war.
At least five people were reported killed after clashes broke out in the capital...
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USA: UN AMBASSADOR HOPES TO GET ECONOMIC EMBARGO ON BURUNDI LIFTED
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Burundi's United Nation's ambassador went before the Security Council in hopes of getting an economic embargo imposed by African nations against his strife-torn country lifted.
He said the embargo,...
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RWANDA/BURUNDI: MADELEINE ALBRIGHT VISITS MASS GRAVE SITE
Bujumbura, Burundi and Kigali, Rwanda 20 Jan 19961. Shot of US government plane2. Albright leaves plane3. Shakes hands with Burundi officials4. Wide shot of Albright and officials entering terminal building5. Albright visits orphanage6....
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BURUNDI: VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT AT REFUGEE CAMP
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Violence has broken out at a Rwandan refugee camp in Burundi.
Three people were shot in clashes between troops and refugees.
The deaths come amid attempts by UNHCR aid workers, to persuade the refugees it is safe to return to...