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South Africa - Rwandan RPF Leader PKF In Jo'burg
Aid workers on Saturday (14/5) said they feared as many as 500,000
people may have been killed in fighting in Rwanda - more than
double previous estimates. "Our conservative estimate is 500,000"
said a senior aid official who in the past...
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Rwanda - Overcrowded prisons
About 1 million people are believed to have died when the Hutu tribal people attempted the genocide of Tutsis, between April and July 1994, in the small central African nation of Rwanda.
Three years on from the genocide, the Tutsi-led...
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US aid plane arrives for volcano victims
1. Various of aid plane taxiing at airport
2. Us flag in plane window
3. Various of cargo being unloaded
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret K McMillion, US Ambassador to Rwanda
"This aeroplane is carrying relief supplies for people in Goma...
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TANZANIA: BENACO REFUGEE CAMP: RWANDAN REFUGEES MAY RETURN HOME
Eng/French/Nat
Half a million Rwandan refugees in Tanzania, who were the first to flee their homes two years ago, look like being the last to return.
Refugees in eight camps in Tanzania are bracing themselves for the inevitable trek ...
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TANZANIA: FORMER UN COMMANDER SPEAKS ABOUT HIS RWANDA TESTIMONY
Arusha, Tanzania, 25 and 26 February 1998.
25 February 1998
1. Wide of International Tribunal Building
2. Mid shot of defendant entering tribunal building
26 February 1998
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Romeo Dallaire
25 February...
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FRANCE: FRANCO - AFRICAN SUMMIT OPENS
French/Nat
President Jacques Chirac officially opened the 20th Franco-African summit on Friday with a call for African nations to take responsibility for their own peacekeeping.
His comments suggested an abrupt departure from...
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KENYA: PEACE TALKS FOR BURUNDI
Natural Sound
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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CONGO: REOPENING OF VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK
English/Nat
The famous gorillas in the Virunga National Park on the Congo-Rwandese border are back on the tourist map.
The Virunga park had been closed over the last 6 months because of ethnic conflicts in the area, making it too...
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Army claims 150 Hutu militia, allies slain
1. RPA (Rwandan Patriotic Army) soldiers in the market
2. Soldier rocket launcher
3. RPA soldiers sitting on back of pick up truck
4. Bullets wrapped in a cloth
5. Captured Hutu Interahamwe rebel (militia responsible for the 1994...
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TANZANIA: FORMER RWANDAN MAYOR AKAYESU FOUND GUILTY OF GENOCIDE
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A U-N tribunal has found a former Rwandan mayor guilty of genocide for his role in the violence that resulted in 500-thousand Rwandans in 1994.
The tribunal, based at Arusha in Tanzania, also convicted Jean-Paul Akayesu of...
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UK and French FMs with Kabila, comment on crisis, meet IDPs
Kinshasa
1. Various shots of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband meeting DRC President Joseph Kabila
2. Kouchner and Miliband and officials walking down steps
3. SOUNDBITE (French)...
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Rwanda - Aid agencies fear cholera epidemic
Aid agencies on Saturday (16/11) raised fears of a cholera epidemic in eastern Zaire after 25 cases were confirmed among Rwandan refugees at a hospital in Goma.
Goma is the centre of the burgeoning refugee crisis. The town's hospital has...
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IDP's in camps to escape clashes between soldiers and rebels
Soldiers backed by United Nations helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles continued to battle with rebels on Saturday around a strategic army garrison near a mountain gorilla reserve in the east of the Democratic Republic of...
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Zaire - Border closed to refugees
Tutsi rebels who captured the eastern Zairean border town of Goma refused on Sunday (3/11) to let refugees cross into Rwanda, where the only humanitarian aid is available. More than one million civilians are fleeing fighting between...
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FRANCE: BRITAIN & FRANCE AGREE ON RELIEF EFFORTS FOR REFUGEES IN ZAIRE
English/Nat
Britain and France have agreed on international relief efforts to help refugees trapped by fighting in Zaire.
But a joint statement issued by Prime Minister John Major and President Jacques Chirac failed to mention the French...
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RWANDA: 48 HUTUS DIE IN ATTACK ON BIGOGWE MILITARY BARRACKS
English/Nat
48 Hutu rebels and three RPA (Rwanda Patriotic Army) soldiers were killed when the rebels tried to attack the Bigogwe military barracks near a refugee camp in north west Rwanda.
It is the latest in a series of attacks in...
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Kagame votes, polls close, counting begins, observers
1. Various of Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, casting his vote in polling station
2. Various of polling officials counting votes
3. Wide of start of African Union election observers in news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anil Gayan,...
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AFRICA: COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN CONGO WARS AGREE ON CEASEFIRE
French/Nat
The countries involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed on to a ceasefire to help end the fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila.
French President...
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Zaire - Baril tours Zaire
The Canadian head of the proposed international intervention force for eastern Zaire, Lietenant General Maurice Baril, toured parts of the region on Thursday (28/11) with Zairean rebels.
Despite aerial reconnaissance by western powers,...
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BURUNDI: TENSION BETWEEN TUTSIS AND HUTUS
Eng/French/Nat
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: WASHINGTON: STATE DEPARTMENT PRESS CONFERENCE ON CRISIS IN ZAIRE
English/Nat
U-S officials are refusing to speculate on the number of refugees still left in Zaire.
The State Department said Friday it won't get into a numbers game regarding the thousands of refugees dispersed throughout Zaire and...
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Rwanda - UN special envoy
The commander of the US Reconnaissance Mission to the African great lakes region, Major-General Edwin Smith, met Rwandan government officials on Monday (18/11) as the international community debated whether or not a multi-national force...
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Rwanda - UN envoy Chretien arrives in Kigali
The UN special envoy for the Great Lakes of central Africa, veteran Canadian diplomat Raymond Chretien, arrived in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Friday (8/11) for high-level talks with Rwandan officials on the crisis in the region.
UN...
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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....