Africa races to contain the growing number of Covid-19 cases sweeping the continent and tighter measures are being enforced as the virus spreads beyond capital cities (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

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Aid to developing countries will be on the agenda at the G-7 summit in Lyons this
week.
It's the first time aid is on the official agenda of such a meeting. In...

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Ethnic violence in the central African state of Burundi claims hundreds of lives every week as the Tutsi-dominated army and Hutu rebels fight for...

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The Tutsi dominated army in the African country of Burundi has staged a coup against the Hutu President Sylvestre Ntibantung
anya.
The U-S Ambassador is sheltering the ousted leader - whom...

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Fresh fighting has broken out in the Burundi capital of Bujumbura ahead of a visit Sunday by U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-G
hali.
Exchanges of fire between...

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Thousands of Rwandan refugees have been persuaded to return to camps in Bur
undi.
But tens of thousands more are still hoping to get into neighbouring Tanzania - even though it has...

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The U.S. ambassador's family was among Americans air lifted out of Burundi today (Wednesday) amidst fears sparked by increasing ethnic viole
nce.
While recent fighting has...

The United Nations Security Council met to discuss mercenaries being sent to the conflict in the Congo. Joseph Ben Mwemba, the new Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations, and Terence Nsanze of Burundi spoke on the...

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...

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President Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela have warned Burundi's Hutu and Tutsi factions on the consequences of failing to reach a full peace tr
eaty.
Seven years of ethnic warfare in...

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The recent history of violence and instability in the African nation of Burundi is hampering conservationists' plans to build a chimpanzee sanct
uary.
They say a sanctuary is needed...

CLEAN : Malala visits Burundian refugees in Rwanda camp on birthday trip

The United Nations Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark a former prime minister of New Zealand in an interview with AFP on Monday said she supported the call of East African countries for elections in Burundi to be postponed

CLEAN : UN Security council visits Burundi

US presidential candidate Donald Trump would be "dangerous from an international point of view" if he is elected, the United Nations (UN) human rights chief said on Wednesday.Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein says some comments by the Republican...

CLEAN : French attackers sister gives police information

Yemeni rebel delegates at talks held in Sweden to try and end their country's ruinous civil war reported progress on Saturday on the key issues of reopening the airport at the capital Sanaa and the implementation of an agreement reached...

Almost a quarter of a billion Africans could become infected with COVID-19 (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

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Rebel leader, Laurent Kabila was sworn in on Thursday as President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Z
aire.
Kabila finally took office with a promise to hold elections...

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The man the Burundi military installed as President has been justifying the coup that brought him to po
wer.
Pierre Buyoya says it was necessary to stop widespread...

1. Wide of presidents arriving at the U.N complex Gigiri in Nairobi

2. Kenyan president, Mwai Kibaki, and Tanzanian president, Jakaya Kikwete, with African Union chairman Alpha Omar Konare in the backg
round
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Thousands of Rwandan Hutus who fled into the bush in eastern Zaire

rather than be forcibly repatriated, began returning to re
fugee
camps on Thursday (24/8) after reports the expulsion
s had...

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A South African journalist covering ethnic violence in Burundi has been killed in an ambush two others also died in the at
tack.
Vincent Francis, Johannesburg bureau chief for...

1. Exterior of building where news conference held

2. Wide of news confe
rence
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary General: ++Please note, soundbite ends with cutaway o
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"The...