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BURUNDI

Protesters of killings clash with police

BUJUMBURA — Police in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura, fired water cannon and tear gas yesterday at crowds protesting the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsis at a U.N. refugee camp in the west of the country.

About 100 Congolese Tutsis, known as Banyamulenge, gathered outside the Congolese Embassy in the lakeside city to denounce the Friday night attack, which Burundi blames on Hutu rebels and allied militias from the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Police fired tear gas and water cannon again later in the day to disperse close to 1,000 Burundi Tutsis in a march organized by the civil society, anti-genocide Tutsi movements and some human rights groups.

The extremist Hutu rebel group, the Forces for National Liberation, claimed responsibility for the attack in which people were hacked, shot and burned to death.

NIGERIA

Attack kills 22 in oil delta

PORT HARCOURT — Twenty-two persons died in a gun attack by one faction in a dispute over rival claims to a lucrative chieftain’s title in Nigeria’s oil-rich delta, a community leader said yesterday.

Fighting over chieftain’s titles is intense in the impoverished Niger delta, where all Nigeria’s oil is produced, because chiefs have rights to royalties paid by Western oil companies pumping crude oil from their traditional lands.

At least eight men raided the remote community of Ataba in southeastern Rivers state early Sunday, shooting members of the rival faction, including women and children, and burning and dynamiting their houses, wounded victims said.

NIGERIA

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