Rwanda, Burundi join East Africa Community
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - Rwanda and Burundi have been accepted as members of the East African Community (EAC), expanding the regional economic bloc to five nations, the EAC said on Thursday.
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Rwanda is sub-Saharan Africa's most improved nation according to a survey promoting good governance.
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Rwanda troops pushed briefly into  Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to attack Hutu rebels early  this week but have since returned home, diplomatic sources in  Africa's Great Lakes region said on Friday.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (IPS) - Louis Michel, the European Union's aid chief,  will urge that the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda seek a  peaceful solution to their problems when he visits East Africa  this week.
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KINSHASA, Congo - UN peacekeepers deployed an additional brigade in eastern Congo amid reports that Rwanda was threatening rebels based in its huge neighbor, UN officials said yesterday.
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SHIRONGI, Rwanda  - Rwanda launched the biggest  phase yet of a scheme to try up to a million people suspected  of involvement in its 1994 genocide, opening hearings Monday at  traditional village courts around the country.
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Rwanda said on Friday it was ready to hold talks with Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila to defuse growing tensions over Rwandan rebels based in eastern Congo.
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A deal to eliminate import tariffs between Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda came into force Saturday, marking the first major step toward integrating the East African nations into a single economic and investment block.
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Presidents of the Great Lakes region in Africa have signed a declaration designed bring peace to the region. Fifteen leaders signed the accord on security, democracy and development at a summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Burundi's largest armed groups merge into a single national army in a significant step in ending the civil war.
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Rwanda will defend its people if armed extremists based in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) cross the border into the country to carry out similar attacks
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Tiny Rwanda and Burundi have threatened action against the central African giant, Democratic Republic of Congo, after the massacre of Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi, which has pushed Africa's volatile Great Lakes region into a new ethnic crisis.
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KINSHASA, 30 November (IRIN) - With the possibility growing daily of Rwandan troop incursions into eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congolese President Joseph Kabila announced on Monday he would send some 10,000 more troops to the area.
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AFRICA/BURUNDI - ÂApprezziamo i progressi della democrazia nei nostri PaesiÂ affermano i Vescovi di Burundi, Rwanda e Repubblica Democratica del Congo Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- Soddisfazione per i progressi compiuti sul piano sociale e politico nei Paesi dellÂAfrica centrale Ã¨ stata espressa dai Vescovi del Comitato Permanente dellÂAssociazione delle Conferenze Episcopali dellÂAfrica Centrale (ACE...
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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - UN peacekeepers are scrambling to avoid new bloodshed in the volatile Great Lakes region of Africa following a massacre of Congolese refugees in western Burundi, the United Nations ...
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Burundi will urge regional  leaders at a summit on Wednesday to impose sanctions against  the rebel Hutu Forces for National Liberation (FNL), blamed for  the slaughter of more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees in  Burundi.
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BERLIN, Dec. 4 (IPS) - Broadcasters from across Africa will gather in  Rwandan capital Kigali this week to propose new plans to bring  digital sound to their hundreds of millions of listeners.