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/ 31 October 2005
Vote counting was under way on Monday after elections to choose a president and lawmakers in the popular tourist destination of Zanzibar were marred, like previous ballots, by violence and fraud. Opposition presidential candidate Seif Shariff Hamad claimed a strong early lead against Amani Karume late on Sunday, the current leader of Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar.
Scattered violence forced the early closure of more than 250 polling stations in Burundi on Friday, threatening to mar local elections critical to the country’s peace process after more than a decade of civil war. Burundian and United Nations officials stressed the violence was limited to areas in and around the capital.
Scattered violence at and near polling stations, including a deadly grenade attack and the shooting of a South African peacekeeper working for the United Nations, threatened to mar key local elections in war-ravaged Burundi on Friday.
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/ 19 January 2005
Less than a month after the abolition of global textile quotas, the once-booming clothing industry in Mauritius is already feeling the pinch. Textile firms that relocated to Mauritius in the 1970s, sparking a local boom and becoming a backbone of the economy, are leaving the Indian Ocean island in droves for Asian nations like China, say business leaders.
Hundreds wandered silently through devastated alleyways at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi on Sunday, trying to make sense of a massacre of 159 men, women and children. Victims were shot, burned and hacked to death at the camp for Congolese Tutsis in the central African state of Burundi in an overnight attack on Friday.
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Burundi explodes into violence
The charred bodies of women and children lay heaped inside a dozen torched huts in the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi on Saturday, where nearly 159 people were killed in an overnight attack. The victims were shot, hacked to death with machetes or burnt inside their homes, during a raid on the camp near the capital Bujumbura.