The killing remains vivid in their minds. And the deep scars on their bodies will for a long time remind them of the slaughter of their compatriots at a refugee camp in the tiny central African nation of Burundi. These are the survivors of the Aug. 13 massacre at Gatumba refugee camp, about 20 kilometres from Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi.

Hundreds of Congolese refugees in Burundi refused to move to a U.N. camp deeper inside the country and said they wanted to return home after surviving a massacre last month. The U.N High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) planned to move the first group of refugees from temporary transit centres on the border with Congo to a safer site inside Burundi following an ethnic massacre.

The United States government has approved the sum of N28 billion ($200) million dollars to encourage educational development in Africa even after the US-sponsored Educational for Development and Democracy Initiative (EDDI) handed over five community resource centers in Nigeria.

Calls on the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to quit the ruling coalition could lead to an early General Election, as the LDP has 68 MPs out of the 132 Narc MPs - leaving other parties in the coalition with 64. The LDP has already announced a new slogan, Rainbow Fagilia (Rainbow sweep), and a thumbs-up salute as its symbol - contrasting with Narc's two-finger V salute - and has established its Rainbow House headquarters in Nairobi's Lavington area, in readiness for the 2007 General Election.