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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.
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