The rivers of blood still run deep in Africa&#39;s Great Lakes region
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The Great Lakes region, which has paid Africa&#39;s highest price in human lives and destruction from ethnic conflict, could soon be plunged again into wholesale war as a result of the recent massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsis in Burundi by Hutu militias.
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KANANGA, Congo  - From a mud hut under the world's longest high-tension power line, Tshisumpa Nvita can see the rusting remains of a power station that, for a few months 30 years ago, brought electricity to this corner of Congo.
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CAPETOWN, South Africa -- After two years of fragile peace, one of Africa's most volatile regions -- the border area of Rwanda and Congo -- has been pushed back to the brink of war, as Rwandan soldiers reportedly staged raids in eastern Congo and Congolese militias clashed with each other.
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BUJUMBURA, Burundi Aug. 17, 2004  Burundi and Rwanda threatened Tuesday to send soldiers into neighboring Congo to hunt down Hutu extremists responsible for slaughtering more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees at a UN camp in Burundi deployments that ...
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African regional leaders gather Wednesday, in Tanzania for a summit on Burundi&#39;s peace process, but the recent massacre of Congolese Tutsi in a UN refugee camp is expected to be high on the agenda.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 22 -- Death rates in Congo remain far higher than elsewhere in Africa despite years of relative peace and elections that were designed to bring stability to the beleaguered nation, according to a report released Tuesday by the International Rescue Committee.
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The province of Darfur in western Sudan is the newest global hot spot. All of a sudden our corporate media are full of reports by US and UK-based human rights organizations alleging mass murder, rape and ethnic cleansing.
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By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 17--THE GREAT LAKES WATER WARS. By Peter Annin. Island Press. 304 pages.
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Fresh rainfalls and slow relief have deepened the humanitarian crisis caused by record floods in Africa which have affected more than 1.5 million people and killed at least 300, aid agencies warned Tuesday.
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Burned, looted shops dot the commercial capital. European airlines have suspended flights. And only a few ships remain in what was one of West Africa&#39;s busiest ports.
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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - U.N. 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 said on Wednesday.
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For more than 20 years, it&#39;s been one of the world&#39;s forgotten wars. Some 2 million people have died, yet it&#39;s received relatively scant global attention.
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PARIS, Sep 25 (IPS) - While its economic landscape is brightening, Africa  is still bedeviled by some of the same obstacles that has  historically served to undermine economic development in the  resource and labour-rich region. And many of those woes could be  solved through development of further intraregional trade.
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At a mass burial in Burundi on Monday, thousands of people lamented the death of hundreds of Tutsis from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) known as Banyamulenge who had fled fighting across the border to Burundi in June. They were slaughtered on ...
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Smaller but mightier than its neighbors, Rwanda&#39;s greatest clout may come from its nightmare past: a widespread sense around the world that the country was largely abandoned
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U.N. 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 said on Wednesday.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Naomi Ewowo had just lost her parents when her family branded her a witch. She was 5.