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East Africa CollaboratesJacques Mafarakura, a 55-year-old museum curator in Gitega, agrees, saying life has never been better in Burundi.
Burundi Facing Many Challenges as President Begins New Term 2010
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Bujumbura is the capital and largest city; Gitega is the only other major town.
Burundi The World Factbook 2008
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They were transferred to a demobilisation camp in Gitega in central
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A spokesman said 238 youngsters in a demobilisation centre in the country's second largest town Gitega had broken loose and attacked schools and people in a stadium.
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An AFP journalist saw that some 108 "volunteer" soldiers signed their papers and went to Gitega in the afternoon, but those unwilling to do so feared that the government was out to purge the military of its minority Tutsis.
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The 238 had been transferred to a demobilisation camp in Gitega in central Burundi last month after a dissident faction of Burundi rebels freed them, ending eight months of negotiations.
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They were transferred to a demobilisation camp in Gitega in central
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He said soldiers who has been gathered at a Bujumbura football pitch would refuse to leave for the army centre in Gitega in central Burundi until the ministry of defence gave them an explanation.
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It's a community of about 1,600 people up in -- Gitega is the name of the area, what Burundians would call "up-country," and there is about 60,000 Pygmies, mostly of one tribe called the Batwa, or the Twa people, and they have been largely ignored.
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But on Jan. 7 fighting broke out in the eastern Ruyigi province, and fighting in the central Gitega province erupted a week ago.
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