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Burundi collected nearly 14,000 weapons last week in a nationwide campaign to disarm the civilian population and ensure elections next year will be peaceful, officials said.

Witnesses say the militants called for the men in the town in a meeting on Friday afternoon and told the hairdressers not cut a beard from men in Merca.

BUJUMBURA, 28 October 2009 - Following two reported cases of polio in Burundi's northwestern province of Cibitoke, the Health Ministry and UN World Health Organization have begun a three-day immunization campaign, targeting at least 1.5 million children under five, officials said.

Maintaining a competent military organization is a challenge for wealthy nations, even in times of relative peace.

Burundi and Uganda have beefed up security and are closely monitoring Somalis living in their countries after hardline rebel group al Shabaab threatened to attack the east African countries' capitals.

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Uganda and Burundi have condemned threats made by Somalia's Islamist Al Shabaab insurgents to strike Kampala and Bujumbura.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday warned Somali militias who have threatened attacks on Uganda's capital Kampala and Burundi's capital Bujumbura.

Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents said they will attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from those countries that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu.

Mortars fired by Islamic militants slammed into Somalia's airport as the president was boarding a plane Thursday, sparking battles that killed at least 24 people when return fire hit residential areas and a market, officials said.

The contribution of justice in the process of reconciliation in Africa was debated in the Seminar 'Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa' held in Rome, during the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops promoted by the 'Giuseppe Toniolo' Institute for International Law for Peace and the Catholic Action International Forum.

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A political manifesto allegedly written by former Congolese warlord Laurent Nkunda just days before he was arrested by the Rwandan Government surfaced for the first time last week.

Burundi, one of the world's poorest nations, is emerging from a 12-year, ethnic-based civil war.

After 17 years of making low-cost prosthetic legs for those in need, a foundation under the patronage of the late Princess Mother is training foreign workers to master the skill.

The UN's Under-Secretary-General B.Lynn Pascoe starts a week-long trip to Eastern and Southern Africa to strengthen the world body's partnership with key African member states.

Democratic Republic of Congo negotiators have wrapped up what are described as a successful opening round of talks in Burundia s capital, Bujumbura, focusing mainly on the eventual return of some 2,500 displaced South Kivu residents.

BUJUMBURA, 12 October 2009 - More than 2,000 Congolese Banyamulenge refugees in Burundi have dropped their refusal to move to another camp in Burundi after the intervention of a senior government official.

Congolese Tutsi refugees Saturday agreed to moved to a temporary camp in eastern Burundi after Kinshasa delayed their entry into their homeland saying it needed more time and preparation to settle them.

Burundi said it would act "firmly" in relocating Congolese Tutsi refugees to a camp in the east of the country after the Democratic Republic of Congo closed its borders to them.

Democratic Republic of Congo told refugees in Burundi on Thursday who want to return to volatile South Kivu province that it was not ready to receive them there, a Burundian official said.

Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.

Bujumbura - A dissident faction of Burundi's National Liberation Front voted on Sunday to oust party leader Agathon Rwasa and name a new leader, but the former rebel leader's supporters rejected the move.

Several hundred Rwandans have fled from the south of the country into neighbouring Burundi, Burundian local officials said Wednesday.