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With the UN Climate Summit barely two weeks away, Africa is abuzz with its biggest and most colorful road show ever to highlight the continent’s climate change woes: the ‘Trans African Caravan of Hope.’
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The government of Tanzania has refuted claims that refugees are being evacuated from Katumba, Mishamo and Rubumu refugee camps to pave a way for an American firm to cultivate the land.
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The Associated Press (AP) reported on July 2nd, 2010, that "Burundi's electoral commission says the lone candidate in the country's presidential election has won by a landslide." Burundian opposition groups boycotted the May 28th election.
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Violence, repression, and human rights abuse continues to increase as 2010 elections approach in the East African neighbor nations of Rwanda and Burundi, whose ethnicity, politics, and conflicts are closely intertwined.
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In a move described as the largest naturalisation anywhere Tanzania had granted citizenship to 162,000 refugees from Burundi most of whom fled to Tanzania in 1972.
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As many countries around the world are relaxing laws which previously restricted the rights enjoyed by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, the East African country of Burundi has in recent months made homosexuality illegal.
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South Africa is withdrawing its peacekeeping troops from Burundi after eight years. Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has described the mission as a success, according to Defenceweb.
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In the African country of Burundi, at least eight people were arrested this week for trading in human body parts belonging to Albinos. The public prosecutor's office says the peasant-farmers 'were caught carrying the bones of albinos, some still fresh.'
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An Iluyshin-76 four-engine cargo plane with eleven people on board crashed into Lake Victoria after take-off from Uganda's main airport at 5:14 am Monday. It was chartered by US Dyncorp, which confirmed the crash. There seem to be no survivors.
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After crops in the north of Burundi withered during a drought between September and October 2008, an estimated 16,500 households in the tiny East African country are facing a severe food shortage.
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Burundi's government bans Human Rights Watch from holding a press conference about its report into the escalation of political assassinations.
Burundi's corruption watchdog, Mohamed Rukara, has uncovered a plot to kill him, his spokesperson says - blaming unnamed people.
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