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Thursday, April 28, 2005 - Web posted at 9:46:46 GMT Rwanda, Burundi seek to ease row BUJUMBURA - Top officials from Rwanda and Burundi will meet this week in a bid to ease an escalating row over thousands of Rwandan Hutus who have fled to Burundi in recent weeks to escape genocide trials at home, officials said. |
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Ministers from the two central African nations were to meet in northern Burundi yesterday, the officials said as Burundi reported the number of Rwandan Hutu refugees had jumped to 5 000, up 3 000 in just the past 10 days. "The two delegations will discuss the asylum seekers who are still arriving in Burundi," said Colonel Didace Nzikoruriho, chief of the refugee department at Burundi's interior ministry. Public Security Minister Salvator Ntihabose is to head Burundi's delegation to the meeting in Ngozi near the country's northern border with Rwanda where many of the fleeing Hutus have crossed the frontier, he told AFP. Officials in Kigali said Rwanda's delegation would be led by Minister for Local Administration Protais Musoni. - Nampa-AP-AFP |
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