July 14, 2003

US Orders Diplomats To Leave Burundi As Fighting Rages

From Yahoo / AP:

The United States ordered its non-essential diplomats to leave Burundi and warned US citizens there to avoid the country amid increased fighting between government and rebel forces.

The State Department also said Americans already in Burundi should reconsider any plans to stay there as a Hutu rebel group resumed the worst assault on Bujumbura in 10 years of war "to alert the world" to the conflict.

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