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Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, he later served as President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Great Lakes region.
Burundi left nothing to chance as they arrived in the country yesterday for the fourth edition of the Club Beer International Beach Volleyball tournament set for this weekend at Lido Resort Beach in Entebbe.
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda yesterday left for Burundi to attend the international conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) heads of State and Government round-table conference.
Ending one of the world's longest-running refugee sagas, the United Nations announced that some 400 Burundians left Tanzania today returning to the Central African homeland they escaped in 1972.
Hundreds of Burundian families who recently returned home from Tanzania have been living in the open in western Bubanza province after they failed to trace their original homes.
The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), is set to hold a roundtable discussion in Burundi next week, as part of the initiatives to draw an implementation plan of the security, stability and regional development pact.
The refugee situation in East Africa has reached alarming levels and the United Nations is urging members countries to adopt the Tanzanian formula of integration.
Heavy rains have destroyed 214 homes, leaving about 1,070 people without shelter in Gihanga commune, western Bubanza province.
National coordinators of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) held a conference in the Central African Republic (CAR), to select projects that will be listed for funding at a regional roundtable that will take place next month.
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