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bujumbura

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The capital and largest city of Burundi, in the western part of the country on Lake Tanganyika; originally called Usumbura, it was renamed when Burundi became independent in 1962.

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In September 39 people were slaughtered in one attack on Gatumba, an hour's drive from the capital, Bujumbura.

The faction, which had overturned the government in a coup in 1997, had demanded to see their leader, whom they believed to be imprisoned.In Burundi rebels and government soldiers clashed outside the capital, Bujumbura.

Witnesses claim that police opened fire on a large group of protesters earlier today, using tear gas and live ammunition to disperse the increasingly angry crowds in the centre of capital city Bujumbura.

The Shabab, who are fighting a fierce insurgency against Somalia's government, have threatened to continue carrying out attacks in Kampala, as well as in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura.

One night she was taken to a house in Kiriri, a smart residential district in Bujumbura, Burundi's capital, where she was held for three months under the supervision of men in police uniform.

In Rumonge, for example, a small lakeside town south of Bujumbura, the investigation found that of the 50 adult sex workers questioned, half had been forced into the trade while they were underage.

In Bujumbura, it is girls from well-off families who are targeted in the best schools.

AFTER two days of turmoil in Burundi the fighting in the capital, Bujumbura, has died down and a coup attempt has been thwarted by loyalist troops.

The country's largest rebel group joined Burundi's transitional government this week, but Mr Rwasa's tiny army, the Forces of National Liberation FNLL), still loves to lob mortar shells into the richer neighbourhoods of Bujumbura, the capital.

Take the port on the edge of Bujumbura, the capital.

Earlier this year, they could do nothing to stop a rebel assault on Bujumbura, the lakeside capital.

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