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A massacre in Burundi threatens the power-sharing government in Kinshasa and peace in the region

Congo-Kinshasa's transition to normality ground to a halt on 23 August, when the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma 'temporarily' withdrew from the transitional government in Kinshasa. The RCD-Goma's Vice-President in that government, Azarias Ruberwa, cited bad faith by President Joseph Kabila's Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Développement and the gruesome massacre of 163 refugees, most of them Congolese Tutsi, in a camp in Burundi on 13 August....

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Keywords:

Azarias Ruberwa, Joseph Kabila, Burundi, Germain Niyoyankana, Rwanda, Charles Murigande, Financial networks threatened, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Laurent Nkunda, Jules Mutebutsi, South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, Kofi Annan, United States, Bizima Karaha, Moïse Nyarugabo, Sylvain Mbuki, Joseph Mudumbi, Jean-Pierre Ondekane, Pierre Nkurunziza, Agathon Rwasa, Tanzania, Domitien Ndayizéyé, Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma, Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Développement, Forces, Armées Burundaises, Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda, Forces Armées Rwandaises, Interahamwé, Forces Nationales de Libération, de facto, Maison Militaire, Garde Spéciale de Sécurité Présidentielle, Mission des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo, Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie, pération des Nations Unies au Burundi