Burundi talks to resume amid appeals for veto on AU plan

The Burundi dialogue was set to resume last Monday following calls by the international community to tame the escalating violence that has seen more than 300 killed since April.

The Minister of Defence, Dr Crispus Kiyonga, has announced that dialogue on the Burundi peace pact will resume on December 28.

A shift to a hotel nightclub dance-floor in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for talks on a truce in South Sudan leaves some delegates bemused.

Peace talks between South Sudan's government and rebels resume in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with a 10 August deadline to agree a ceasefire.

President Uhuru Kenyatta today opened the World Trade Organization (WTO) 10th Ministerial Conference with a call for tangible outcomes.

Burundi's president sacks three cabinet ministers, as protests resumed in the capital after last week's failed coup.

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UNICEF appeals for $25m for Burundi
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In a burst of national pride at its annual shareholder meeting in 2007 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was blasting out the theme tune to Braveheart, a Mel Gibson film about the first Scottish fight for independence from England.

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Zanzibar's opposition chief Maalim Seif Hamad called for calm having previously threatened to lead protests if results of annulled elections were not released on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian islands. (AFP). Zanzibar, Tanzania: Zanzibar has formally ...
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