Pierre Buyoya, who took power in Burundi last week in a bloodless

coup, said on Sunday (28/7) he wanted the deposed Hutu lea
ders,
who have taken refuge in foreign embassies, to stay i
n...

Burundi's new leader Pierre Buyoya on Friday (26/7) urged foreign

powers to refrain from military intervention in his cou
ntry.
Tutsi military official Buyoya's call for non-interference in Burundi's affair
s...

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Thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees who fled towards Tanzania last week are being sent back to their camps in Bur
undi.
The United Nations says the refugees will be safe from hostile...

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Thousands of Rwandan refugees have made a last-minute dash back across the border to their central African homeland of Rw
anda.
The latest wave of refugees returned from...

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Hundreds of university students swarmed through the streets of the Zairian capital Kinshasa Friday demanding war with neighbouring Rwanda and Bur
undi.
They...

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At least 150 Hutus, mostly women and children, are reported to have been massacred in a single village in northeastern Buru
ndi.
Tutsi soldiers and militants are being blamed for the...

Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere said in Nairobi on Monday (10/6) that genocide involving the conflicting parties in Burundi would be difficult to prevent. Nyerere, who is mediating in the conflict between the Hutu and...

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Fifty-seven Burundians and Rwandans have left the Kenyan capital Nairobi for a new life in the United Sta
tes.
The refugees - all from half-Hutu,...

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Thousands of Rwandan refugees are now flooding back across the border to their central African homeland of Rw
anda.
The latest wave of refugees returned from camps in...

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Former South African President Nelson Mandela said on Thursday he did not have the slightest doubt that all parties would sign a peace deal on Monday to put an end to...

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...

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VOICE-OVER: Philippa Me
agher
Two-hundred and twenty-eight Burundians and Rwandans are on their way to the United States after Washington accepted their applications for...

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The United Nations' new special envoy to the Great Lakes region of Africa has a difficult road ahead of
him.
On Tuesday (5 November) Canada's Ambassador to the United States,...

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Burundi to pray for peace on

Thursday (6/4), a year after both Burundi's and Rwa
nda's
presidents were assassinated, en event which unleashe
d genocide
across neighbouring...

Europeans flee capital wracked by violence

Two hundred Europeans were evacuated from the Burundi capital Bujumbura on Tuesday (28/3) leaving a city wracked by ethnic violence. The Air France Boeing 747, sent by the French...

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An angry crowd has forced the President of Burundi to leave a service in memory of the 320 people killed in last week's refugee camp mass
acre.
Hundreds of Tutsi demonstrators...

Aid workers and dependants of American, French, Belgian, British

and German embassy staff left the Burundi capital of Buju
mbura
voluntarily early on Wednesday (29/3) as a...

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Rwandan refugees continue to trickle home as aid organisations struggle to speed up their repatriation by road and
air.
Hundreds of refugees - most of them...

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Former Tanzanian President, Julius Nyerere, has died in the London hospital where he was receiving treatment for leuka
emia.
Nyerere died at 0730gmt...

Former Burundi president Pierre Buyoya seized power in a military coup Thursday (25/7), ousting Hutu incumbent Sylvestre Ntibantunganya and shattering a fragile power-sharing accord between the country's rival...

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Burundi radio reported on Saturday that a family of seven had been massacred at Kajaga village near Bujum
bura.
Unfortunately, these kind of massacres are commonplace in this...

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The United Nations' Security Council has strongly condemned any attempt to overthrow the government of Burundi, where the military has apparently forced the president from...

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United Nations officials said on Wednesday more than 133-thousand refugees have fled to the hills to escape expulsion from Z
aire.
Despite warnings from the U-N and the U-S...

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U-S President Bill Clinton has urged African leaders to accept the risks of peacemaking and reach a settlement in Burundi, before violence there ruins the possibility of...