Cart before horse

An offer of aid may tempt the last rebel movement in from the cold

The Bujumbura government and the international donors in the Forum for Burundi may have put the cart before the horse. In Brussels on 13-14 January, they put together US$1.32 billion-worth of promised funds for reconstruction and post-civil-war stabilisation. Yet peace still depended on a successful meeting between President Domitien Ndayizéyé and the rebel Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL). The Burundian parties in Brussels, the Tutsi-dominated government and Pierre Nkurunziza's Hutu former rebels, the Forces de la Défense de la Démocratie (FDD), hoped to tempt the FNL into the queue for the peace dividend.

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Domitien Ndayizéyé, Pierre Nkurunziza, Netherlands, Pasteur Habimana, Italian, Mozambique, Aldo Ajello, Vatican, Michael Courtney, Térence Sinunguruza, Evariste Ndayishimiye, Simon Nyandwi, Poul Nielson, South African, André Flahaut, Rwandan, Jean Minani, Jean-Baptiste Manwangari, Pierre Buyoya, Charles Mukasi, Epitace Bayanagakandi, Forces Nationales de Libération, Forces de la Défense de la Démocratie, Africa Confidential, Assemblée Nationale, Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi, Union pour le Progrès National

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