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...protection against HIV transmission. Kanuma has arranged to receive shipments of lubricants from NGOs in France, with a monthly supply of 2,000 packets to hand out to about 40 men who have come forward, a small proportion of the roughly 250 gay men in the capital city of Bujumbura. (Kanuma says an attempt last March to take a census of gay men throughout the rest of the country got him arrested.) "I always get anonymous calls from men asking for lube," says Kanuma. "They tell me not to ask any questions and just put the lube inside a magazine...
...Hutu rebels. In the most serious fighting since a power-sharing agreement between Tutsi and Hutu began last November, the Burundi army said it had killed more than 200 Hutu rebels in two weeks. Most of the rebels were killed at Gitega, 100 km east of the capital Bujumbura, where 152 rebels died, according to a military spokesman. The army said that rebel Forces for the Defense of Democracy entered Burundi from Tanzania. INDIA Assam Ambushes Seven policemen were killed in a suspected rebel attack in India's northeastern state of Assam. Police said militants ambushed an armed police convoy...
...higher ground after they saw cracks developing in the six-year-old dam, which may have been overfilled by 5 million cu m because of exceptionally heavy winter rains. BURUNDI Rebels Fight On Rebels from the Hutu-dominated National Liberation Forces (NLF) attacked a military position north of Bujumbura, forcing thousands of people living in the northern neighborhoods of the capital to flee their homes as fighting neared and shells slammed into the center of the city. A transitional government, accepted by 17 political parties, was inaugurated last November but Hutu rebels refused to accept it. Recent talks between government...
Last week ethnic hatred overcame fear of divine retribution, and death came for the archbishop. At 5:30 on Monday afternoon, Ruhuna was returning to his see of Gitega, 50 miles east of the capital of Bujumbura, when attackers opened fire on his car. Summoned by a witness, rescuers reached the site to find only the smoldering carcass of the vehicle. The bodies of the passengers, including the archbishop, had vanished. In the car was the one possession Ruhuna left behind: the miter he wore to symbolize the power of his office and his church...
...BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Killing to prevent more killing seems to make sense in Burundi. A day after the Tutsi-led military deposed the Central African country's Hutu president, the leader of the coup, Pierre Buyoya, said that was exactly what he was doing. "The change is not a classic coup," the Tutsi major said at a news conference Friday. "It is an action to save a people in distress and stop repeated massacres and killing all over the country." The overthrown president, Sylvestre Nitibantunganya, remains in the U.S. ambassador's home and maintains that he is still the leader...