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EAC Holds Crucial Technical Meet
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
Senior officials of the East African Community Coordination Committee are in Arusha to discuss significant technical issues that would steer the goals of the bloc. According to a press statement, the meeting will also to prepare for the 12th Meeting of the Council of Ministers, according to a press statement.
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Radio Station Director Comes Out of Hiding, But Fears for His Safety Once Again Following Partial Closure of Station
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
Authorities in Burundi have stopped local broadcasts of the private radio station Radio Publique Africaine (RPA) in the northern province of Ngozi since Friday. The reason authorities gave for the closure was non-payment of broadcast license fees but several local sources told CPJ the move was in retaliation for RPA's
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Secretary-General Concerned About Reports of Coup Attempt, Arrests
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed deep concern about reports of a possible coup attempt in Burundi and the subsequent arrests of several prominent
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Onatel Seeks South African Govt Help to Retrieve Scam Payment
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
Burundi's incumbent Onatel fell for the oldest trick in the book. Three South African businessmen offered the company a substantial loan. But first the alleged fraudsters asked the company to make a 10% "security deposit". Unfortunately for the Onatel officials, there was no loan: it was simply a face-to-face version
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African Public Radio's Ngozi-Based Station Closed
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
RSF has condemned the 18 August 2006 decision by the Telecommunications Regulation Agency (Agence de régulation et de contrôle des télécommunications, ARCT) to close privately-owned African Public Radio's station in Ngozi, northern Burundi. The station had allegedly "considerably surpassed" the time period that it was licenced to use its radio
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Officers in Demobilisation for the First Time, Official Says
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
Officers have been included for the first time in Burundi's demobilisation process that started in 2004, said an official on
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Development Gateway Group Explores Burundi
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
A delegation of officials from Rwanda Development Gateway (RDG), the Centre for Geographical Information Systems (CGIS) and ICT training centre (RITC) is trying to initiate a country gateway in neighbouring Burundi.The team that left 16 August is led by Francis Dogo, the Senior Director, Country Operations at the Development Gateway
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Uganda Drawn Against Burundi and Rwanda in Under-20s
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
THE Uganda under-20 soccer team has been pitted against former winners and hosts Burundi, Rwanda, Zanzibar and Somalia in group 'A' of the youth tournament scheduled for Bujumbura September
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Home is Still Home, Even Without Land
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
As if life as a refugee is not hard enough, life as a returnee - for some Burundians - seems even harder, especially for those considered "long-term" refugees, who left the country in 1972 after ethnic
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Expelled Burundians Are Illegal Immigrants, Government Says
allAfrica.com
- Friday, August 25, 2006
The 600 Burundians recently expelled from Tanzania are illegal immigrants, not refugees, a senior Tanzanian official said on
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BURUNDI: Officers in demobilisation for the first time, official says
IRIN
- Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Officers have been included for the first time in Burundi's demobilisation process that started in 2004, said an official on
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Ex-Burundi president arrested in alleged coup plot investigation
Jurist
- Monday, August 21, 2006
JURIST] Former Burundi President Domitien Ndayizeye [Wikipedia profile] was arrested Monday in connection with an ongoing investigation into an alleged plot to overthrow the current government. Authorities say he was taken in for questioning by
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RSF Appeals to President to Improve Poisonous Relations Between Government And Press
allAfrica.com
- Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Reporters Without Borders has written to Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza voicing concern about the pernicious state of relations between his government and the media, and the alarming number of press freedom violations during his first year in
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Burundi: Work With U.N. on Justice and Reconciliation
Human Rights Watch
- Monday, August 14, 2006
Releases of Detainees Underline Need for Speedy Justice
Burundian authorities and United Nations experts, due to meet Monday, should ensure the speedy establishment of mechanisms to address grave violations of international law committed in political and ethnic conflicts in this central African nation, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Burundi: Rights Protections at Risk with New Government
Human Rights Watch
- Monday, August 14, 2006
Torture and Summary Executions Documented in Ongoing War
The election of a new government in Burundi has not brought an end to human rights violations by all sides in the country’s brutal civil war, Human Rights Watch said today.
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US Envoy in Talks Over 'Negative Forces'
allAfrica.com
- Monday, August 14, 2006
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Don Yamamoto began talks on Friday with senior officials from Africa's Great Lakes region on plans to arrest and extradite leaders of "negative forces" operating in the troubled
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UN Envoy 'Confident' of Final Ceasefire Despite Rebels' 'Second Thoughts'
allAfrica.com
- Monday, August 14, 2006
The top United Nations envoy in Burundi said today he remained confident that a final ceasefire would be signed between the Government and the last hold-out rebel faction despite reported rebel "second thoughts" in the small Central African country that has been torn by decades of ethnic and factional
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Does Lasting Peace Require Army Reform?
allAfrica.com
- Monday, August 14, 2006
The leader of the last remaining rebel group in Burundi, Agathon Rwasa, is in Dar es Salaam to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with the Burundian government, a deal sources in his Palipehutu/FNL (National Forces for Liberation) say is being imposed on him by an initiative sponsored by countries of the
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: Belgium to increase aid to eradicate poverty
IRIN
- Monday, August 14, 2006
Belgium has pledged to increase its aid to Burundi by 15 million euros (US $19 million) per year, the Belgian cooperation and development minister, Armand de Decker, has
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: Ceasefire negotiations delayed to 13 July
IRIN
- Monday, August 14, 2006
Negotiations between the Burundian government and the remaining rebel group, the Forces nationales de libération, have been postponed until 13 July after the parties failed to agree a permanent truce, mediators
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