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Belgium - WEU Talks On Rwanda
The Western European Union (WEU) defence group met on Friday
(17/6) to discuss possible military intervention in Rwanda aimed
at preventing further ethnic slaughter that has claimed an
estimated 500,000 lives.
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Adds file to Roman Catholic nuns' trial for alleged involvement in Rwandan genocide
1. Palace of Justice in Brussels
2. Various journalists outside Justice Palace
3. Policeman
4. Various jury members queuing to get into courtroom (2 shots)
5. Various journalists in the courtroom
6. Judge Luc Maen entering courtroom
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ZAIRE: AIRLIFT OF 100,000 RWANDAN REFUGEES TO BEGIN SOON
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The United Nations says the massive airlift of 100-thousand Rwandan refugees from Zaire to their homeland will begin on Friday.
60 refugees have been dying each day in overcrowded, filthy jungle camps.
But on Wednesday,...
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Rwanda - MSF aid trucks
The aid agency, Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) said on Saturday (9/11) it was trucking about 25 tons of aid to the Rwandan town of Gisenyi, on the border between Rwanda and Zaire.
WS stationary aid convoy on street;...
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Rebel M23 group defies deadline to leave Goma
1. M23 rebel fighters in town of Kibumba, 30 kilometres (18.5 miles) from Goma
2. M23 fighters moving out after patrol search for members of the FDLR, another rebel group based in DR Congo
3. Wide of local residents
4. Two young men...
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RWANDA: REFUGEE CAMP
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Thousands of Rwandan refugees are being prevented from returning to their homes in the town of Ngenda where government troops are holding other returnees as virtual prisoners.
Around 1,000 Hutus have been shepherded into an...
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France and Rwanda agree to restore diplomatic ties
1. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner
2. SOUNDBITE: (French) Bernard Kouchner, French Foreign Minister:
"We've tried to replace our misunderstandings, the weight of the massacres - by (constructive) projects between the two...
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SOUTH AFRICA: PRETORIA: CONGO PRESIDENT KABILA VISIT
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The embattled president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila, has called on South African President, Thabo Mbeki, to pressure the rebels who are trying to topple his government into signing the current...
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Envoys on DRC talks, UN chief, leaders; Rwanda, group photo
1. Wide shot of conference room
2. Mid shot of UN and African Union delegations, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer on the far left
3. Mid shot of Louis Michel, European Union Commissioner for development...
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UN: WASHINGTON: HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES PRESS CONFERENCE
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The U-N High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, said on Monday that the rail operation to repatriate refugees from Zaire would be stopped.
The decision follows the deaths of 91 refugees on a packed train on...
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RWANDA: RUHENGERI: FUNERAL OF CANADIAN PRIEST GUY PINARD
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The burial has taken place of a Canadian priest who was shot dead as he administered communion in a tiny rural church in Rwanda.
Guy Pinard fell victim to the growing violence that has gripped the north-western part of ...
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Bush gives Medal of Freedom to Greenspan, Muhammad Ali
1. Wide shot of President and Mrs. Bush arriving for Medal of Freedom ceremony
2. Mid pan of honorees on stage at Medal of Freedom ceremony
3. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"The Presidential Medal of Freedom is...
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+4:3 Preview to trial of former Rwanda intelligence chief over genocide
Through a ground-breaking trial, France is at last coming to terms with its much-criticised response to Rwanda's genocide.
Pascal Simbikangwa, a Rwandan former intelligence chief, is to appear on Tuesday in a Paris court for an expected...
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ZAIRE: FOREIGN AID WORKERS ARE THREATENED & RELIEF FOOD LOOTED
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Hundreds of angry Zairians threatened foreign aid workers and looted relief food warehouses Friday in a flare-up that stalled aid efforts and U-N plans to start repatriating 100-thousand refugees to Rwanda.
Zairians...
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Government troops near Kibati
1. Government troops - FARDC (Forces Arm�es de la R�publique D�mocratique du Congo) - on road near Kibati, slow pan
2. UPSOUND solider, name unknown, talking in Portuguese
"Congo (DRC) is ours....I don't have a problem saying...
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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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ZAIRE/RWANDA: RWANDAN REFUGEES RETURNING HOME FROM ZAIRE UPDATE
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The flow of Rwandan refugees returning home from Zaire is now winding down after three days that have seen the largest and fastest movement of refugees ever.
Aid agencies have estimated that around half a million Hutu...
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ZAIRE: RWANDAN REFUGEES RESIST EFFORTS TO BE PUSHED BACK HOME
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More than one (m) million Rwandan refugees at camps on the Zaire-Rwanda border are stubbornly resisting the Zaire army's efforts to push them back into their homeland.
One of the largest, the Kibumba camp near Goma, is...
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RWANDA: REFUGEES BEING SHELTERED IN TRANSIT CAMP
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Thousands of Rwandan refugees who fled the massacre at Kibeho are being sheltered in a transit camp in Nadera.
Aid workers have been tending to those who were injured in the massacre, but the number of refugees is rising and...
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Rwandan pastor arrested in Uganda faces charges of genocide
1. Wide of street, traffic
2. Wide of Central Police Station
3. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakoba gets out of car
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Judith Nabakoba, Ugandan police spokeswoman:
"He was from Congo, then to Ugandan side, and when...
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Rwanda - French Plane Dropped 6 Tonnes Of Food
France on Sunday (24/7) air-dropped humanitarian supplies inside
its safety zone in southwest Rwanda. The six tonnes of food was
delivered north of the town of Gikongoro, where waves of mainly
Hutu Rwandan refugees have fled amid fear of...
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Zaire - Leotard Visits French Troops In Rwanda
Some 1,500 of a planned contingent of 2,500 French soldiers are at work in Operation Turquoise, aimed at stopping the bloodletting in the war-torn central African nation. The French Defence Minister Francois Leotard said that French...
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Rwanda - Refugees Return Home
Some 50,000 Rwandans who have been housed in makeshift refugee
camps on the outskirts of the capital Kigali for the past three
months began returning home Sunday (10/7) the first concrete sign
that the fighting may be easing. All...
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Zaire - Food aid to refugees
East Zairean rebels on Tuesday (12/11) prevented aid agencies from reaching thousands of needy people as fears of disease grew and a multinational intervention force to help refugees took shape. The rebels allowed relief workers to enter...