‘Burundi Talks Good’
Sep 11, 2003
THERE is optimism that a breakthrough will be achieved in the on-going intensive negotiations between the Burundian Government and the rebels aimed at bringing about peace in the war-torn central African country.
By Alfred Wasike and Stuart Price
THERE is optimism that a breakthrough will be achieved in the on-going intensive negotiations between the Burundian Government and the rebels aimed at bringing about peace in the war-torn central African country.
President Yoweri Museveni, the chairperson of the Burundi Peace Initiative has been holding mediation talks between Burundi President Domitien Ndayizeye (right) and Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD)/Counsel for the National Defence of Democracy (CNDD).
President Ndayizeye returned home yesterday ahead of his rebel compatriots.
Foreign Affairs Minister James Wapakhabulo, who co-chaired the three-day talks, with Museveni yesterday told The New Vision that a ray of hope is beginning to shine on Burundi’s bloody horizon, aimed at ending 10 years of brutal civil war, in which at least 200,000 people have perished.
The conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands more, of whom some 350,000 are refugees in Tanzania.
The talks in Nakasero State House were in preparation for a regional summit convened by Museveni to be held in Dar-es-Salaam.
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THERE is optimism that a breakthrough will be achieved in the on-going intensive negotiations between the Burundian Government and the rebels aimed at bringing about peace in the war-torn central African country.
President Yoweri Museveni, the chairperson of the Burundi Peace Initiative has been holding mediation talks between Burundi President Domitien Ndayizeye (right) and Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD)/Counsel for the National Defence of Democracy (CNDD).
President Ndayizeye returned home yesterday ahead of his rebel compatriots.
Foreign Affairs Minister James Wapakhabulo, who co-chaired the three-day talks, with Museveni yesterday told The New Vision that a ray of hope is beginning to shine on Burundi’s bloody horizon, aimed at ending 10 years of brutal civil war, in which at least 200,000 people have perished.
The conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands more, of whom some 350,000 are refugees in Tanzania.
The talks in Nakasero State House were in preparation for a regional summit convened by Museveni to be held in Dar-es-Salaam.
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