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  President article - President title Latin chairman executive head state republic legislature - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
President for Life is a title assumed by some dictators to ensure that their authority or legitimacy is never questioned.
Rather, he or she is called a president in an older sense of the word to denote the fact that he or she heads the cabinet.
In these countries, the sash is a symbol of the presidency's continuity, and presenting the sash to the new president is a key part of the inauguration ceremony.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Presidents   (1857 words)

  
 MAR | Data | Chronology for Tutsis in Burundi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1988, Burundi is in the midst of an effort sponsored by the World Bank to move away from a subsistence economy by boosting private investment and diversifying exports.
Presidents Ntaryamira of Burundi and Habyarimana of Rwanda (both Hutus) are killed when the airplane they are aboard is shot down by a rocket near Kigali, capital of Rwanda.
Increased violence in Burundi in recent months was accompanied by an army policy to forcefully relocate Hutu peasants and an increased use of mines in the conflict.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=51602   (6282 words)

  
 List of Aragonese Presidents|President Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
president in an older sense of the word to denote the fact that he or she heads the ''cabinet''.
Several presidents have ruled until their death in democracydemocratic countries, but they have not actually been made and/or proclaimed themselves as President for Life.
In FranceFrench legal terminology, the president of a court consisting of multiple judges is the foremost judge; he chairs the meeting of the court and directs the debates (and this thus addressed as "Mr President", ''Monsieur le Président'', or appropriate feminine forms).
www.echostatic.com /List_of_Aragonese_Presidents|President.html   (2071 words)

  
 Burundi
Buyoya was sworn in as president, and Domitien Ndayizeye, the secretary general of FRODEBU, was sworn in as vice president on November 1.
According to the terms of the agreement, on November 1, Buyoya was sworn in as president and Domitien Ndayizeye, the secretary general of FRODEBU, was sworn in as vice president.
COSYBU president Pierre-Claver Hajavandi and his brother Raphael Horumpende, who were arrested in 2000 and accused respectively of organizing a general strike and involvement in a grenade attack, were released during the year.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8280.htm   (11179 words)

  
 Preventing Genocide in Burundi Lessons from International Diplomacy: Peaceworks: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Burundi government’s 1996 request for regional security assistance was strongly influenced by threatened UN humanitarian intervention and Ugandan President Museveni’s persistent advocacy of regional military assistance to reform the army.
Subsequent Western encouragement for President Buyoya and the April 1997 easing of sanctions failed to produce serious proposals for political compromise in Rome or participation in anticipated all-party negotiations in Arusha.
Presidents and prime ministers might begin with strong public statements underlining the moral importance of opposing the continuing genocidal massacres of hundreds of thousands of human beings in Central Africa.
www.usip.org /pubs/peaceworks/weissm22/chap6_22.html   (1327 words)

  
 History (from Burundi) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Burundi is a landlocked republic of central Africa.
Presidents in 1996, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya and, from July 25, Pierre Buyoya; prime ministers, Antoine Nduwayo and, from...
Presidents in 1993, Maj. Pierre Buyoya and, from June 2 to October 21, Melchior Ndadaye; prime ministers, Adrien Sibomana...
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 President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A President is the head of state of a republic.
Sometimes the title is even extended into the more presumptuous form of "president for life." In some communist states the head of the Communist party was also given the presidency, Fidel Castro in Cuba, Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union.
In these countries, the sash is a symbol of the presidency's continutiy, and presting the sash to the new president is a key part of the inauguration ceremony.
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 List of Presidents of Niger|President Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
* Under the French French Third RepublicThird and the French Fourth RepublicFourth Republics, the "President of the Council" (of ministers) was the head of government, with the President of the Republic a largely symbolic figurehead.
*List of Presidents of the Czech RepublicCzech Republic
*List of Presidents of the Dominican RepublicDominican Republic
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 Daily Press Briefing by the Spokesman for the President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This morning the Assembly continued the general debate with statements by the Presidents of Burundi (Pierre Buyoya) and Ghana (Jerry Rawlings), Vice-Chancellors and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Austria (EU) and Germany, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Australian delgation and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh and Peru.
In the afternoon, the Assembly is scheduled to hear the Presidents of Lithuania (Valdas Adamkus), Guyana (Janet Jagan), Paraguay (Raul Cubas Grau) and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Zimbabwe, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Denmark, Panama, Belgium, Finland, Namibia and Mozambique.
On the side table is the list of speakers scheduled to address the Assembly tomorrow.
www.un.org /ga/53/session/president/br9.22.htm   (127 words)

  
 President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The first European president was the President of France, a post created in the Second French Republic Second Republic of 1848.
Rather, he or she is called a president (history of the term) president in an older sense of the word to denote the fact that he or she heads the ''cabinet''.
Under the French French Third RepublicThird and the French Fourth RepublicFourth Republics/, the "President of the Council" (of ministers) was the head of government, with the President of the Republic a largely symbolic figurehead.
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 Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation - OVERVIEW OF THE BURUNDI PEACE PROCESS
The Burundi conflict is a complex historical problem interwoven with the challenges of creating an African nation state from a colonial entity and the history and culture of German and Belgium colonialism and antiquated and discredited 19th century Eurocentric theories of race.
Long term observers of the Burundi political crises from the sixties, always thought that some form of external intervention was required to assist the two principal components of the population, the Bahutu and Batutsi, to work out and establish mechanisms that would prevent the periodic blood letting.
Following the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye on 21st October 1996 and the prolonged crisis that has followed, the Organisation of African Unity and the international community were searching for an individual they could entrust a Burundi Peace Mission and Mwalimu's name was high on the list.
www.nyererefoundation.or.tz /research/centre.htm   (5322 words)

  
 Burundi: USCR Statement/VOA Report
Statements by OAU leaders continue to recognize Ntibantunganya as president and insist that the new regime in Burundi is totally illegal and must be isolated.
Historically in Burundi and Rwanda, public calls to give weapons to undisciplined youths are a thinly veiled incitement to ethnic warfare, and typically lead to horrific ethnic massacres in the name of defense.
The UN investigation into Burundi's 1993 violence should be released immediately, with all details made public, in order to counter the culture of impunity that precipitates massacres and coups in Burundi.
www.africaaction.org /docs96/uscr9608.htm   (1826 words)

  
 BlackIssue
In 1993 Burundi seemed poised to enter a new era when, in their first democratic elections, Burundians chose their first Hutu head of state, Melchior Ndadaye, and a parliament dominated by the Hutu Front for Democracy in Burundi (Frodebu) party.
However, he was killed in a plane crash in April - the same incident that killed the president of neighbouring Rwanda.
Burundi's three previous Hutu presidents were all overthrown by the military.
www.blackissue.com /burundi.htm   (465 words)

  
 USAID Transition Initiatives: Burundi Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
USAID/OTI's program goal in Burundi is to support the transition to peace and democracy as articulated in the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Accord (APRA) by building momentum for the implementation of the Accord and by promoting a culture of peace and justice.
As fighting intensified in central and northern Burundi, the capital city Bujumbura was shelled on two successive nights resulting in reports of six deaths.
The spokesman for the group stated "the release of the prisoners seems to be the systematic release of all perpetrators of genocide and their accomplices, as well as collaborators of the armed groups that continue to spread terror and cause death in the country."
www.usaid.gov /hum_response/oti/country/burundi/rpt0702.html   (1441 words)

  
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Describing the establishment of the new government as an "extremely important step" in the effort to re-establish peace in Burundi, Buyoya said his team would back this by holding communal-level and council elections within 18 months.
Before then, he said, the transitional government and state institutions would rehabilitate the victims of disasters, repatriate refugees and rebuild infrastructure destroyed during the eight-year civil war in which at least 200,000 died.
Vice-President Domitien Ndayizeye, a Hutu, said he was satisfied because "all the signatories" to the August 2000 Arusha peace agreement agreed to participate in the state institutions.
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=12667   (571 words)

  
 Female Presidents
Soong Qingling was widow of Sun Yat-Sen, Provisoric President of China in 1911.
Acting President of the Congress and acting Deputy Head of State 1978-79.She was President of Partido Revolucionario de los Izquierda Nazional Gueiler 1979-94, Exile in France 1980-82, Ambassador in Embassy to West Germany 1982-83, and to Venezuela 1983-86 and since 1993 She was deposed by the 129
She was Vice-President 1984-86 and President of Sri Lanka Maha Jana Party 1984-86, Leader of United Socialist Alliance 1988 and since 1993 Leader of People’s Alliance and Deputy Leader of Sri Lanka Freedom Party, 1993-94 Chief Minister of the Colombo Province and in a few months in 1994 Prime Minister.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /Presidents.htm   (2349 words)

  
 Resources (from Burundi) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Resource allocation arises as an issue because the resources of a society are in limited supply, whereas human wants are usually unlimited, and because any given resource can have many alternative uses.
Relations between the Hutu and the Tutsi peoples in Rwanda and Burundi have long been plagued by extreme ethnic violence marked by large-scale massacres at the hands of both groups.
In both Rwanda and Burundi, the Hutu make up about 80–85 percent of the population and the Tutsi form a minority of about 10–15 percent.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-40663?tocId=40663   (786 words)

  
 Burundi: Regional Summit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Burundi maintains Tanzania is harbouring Hutu rebels, while Tanzania counters that Bujumbura is planning to stage cross-border military strikes on refugee camps.
President Yoweri Museveni explained that regional leaders decided to maintain sanctions on Burundi until the parties involved created a mechanism to ensure democracy and security for all Burundians.
Burundi President Pierre Buyoya told Reuters today (Friday) that he was ready to negotiate with Hutu rebel leader Leonard Nyangoma's Conseil National pour la Defence de la democratie (CNDD).
php.africaaction.org /docs97/bur9709.htm   (1787 words)

  
 Burundi: Peace Talks
After several months of stalemate, the Burundi peace process resumes in Arusha, northern Tanzania, on Monday 15 June against the backdrop of a new relationship between the usually adversarial government and parliament.
The "external" peace process, mediated by former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, is now running parallel to an "internal" peace dialogue launched by the government of President Pierre Buyoya.
Minani, who was at first opposed to a recent "partnership" deal between his party and the Burundian government, said that as negotiations were in progress and as "everybody was committed to finding a solution" the armed struggle was no longer justified.
www.africaaction.org /docs98/bur9806a.htm   (1274 words)

  
 MoJo Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Zoellick, the man Kerry slandered, is President Bush's trade representative, and on one day last month in Geneva he did more discernible good for his country than Kerry has done in 20 years in the Senate.
Unfortunately, history appears to be repeating itself with this weekend's massacre of Tutsi refugees in Burundi.
The results are in, and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has survived a recall election with nearly 60 percent of the vote.
www.motherjones.com /news/blog/2004/08/MB_2004_34.html   (6372 words)

  
 Burundi: List of Government Ministers as of 18 June 1998
Burundi: List of Government Ministers as of 18 June 1998
Burundi President Pierre Buyoya announced on 12 May the composition on the new government team, proposed by the two new vice-presidents, Frederic Bamvuginyumvira and Mathias Sinamenye.
An OAU mediation mission is in Addis today (Thursday), including Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu and the Djiboutian foreign minister.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/irin_61898.html   (977 words)

  
 Burundi takes another step on the road to peace : Mail & Guardian Online
It said the president would name two vice-presidents whose candidature would have to be approved by the two houses of Parliament.
McAskie, the United Nations head of mission in Burundi said the pact was an "important step" but warned that the road ahead was long.
Earlier this week, Zuma said that the talks in Pretoria to which 31 parties were invited were a last opportunity for Burundi's leaders to reach an agreement before the transitional government ends its mandate at the end of October.
www.mg.co.za /Content/l3.asp?ao=119945   (856 words)

  
 [04 Nov 1996]: DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Secretary-General had spoken on the telephone with the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Union, the Presidents of Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Zaire, with Pierre Buyoya of Burundi, and with the President of the European Union.
Samsiah Abdul-Majid, spokeswoman for General Assembly President Razali Ismail (Malaysia), said at the time of the briefing the Assembly President was meeting with a group of Palestinian journalists undergoing training with the Department of Public Information.
A correspondent asked whether the Secretary-General had any comment on the Friday statement of the President of the General Assembly on the situation in eastern Zaire, in which he had said that the United Nations should be embarrassed and should be in mourning over the situation there.
www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1996/19961104.dbnov04.html   (1784 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of Presidents of Burundi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Other descriptions of List of Presidents of Burundi
List of Rulers and Heads of State of Burundi
The Republic of Burundi (Republika y’Burundi) (Républigue du Burundi)
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Presidents-of-Burundi   (142 words)

  
 Famous Hams and ex-Hams
Eminent physicist and space scientist nominated by President George Bush on 11-MAR- 2005, to be the 11th Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
President of the University of Maine at Machias (UMM); credited with helping to raise the enrollment at UMM during his relatively short tenure (from 2000).
Founder/past president YLISSB System; she also was a nurse and one of the first airline stewardesses for American Airlines in Little Rock, Arkansas; see official YL International web site; links.
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 Dibdabdo.com Kid Safe Search Engine Burundi.
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are found in 21 African countries - from the west coast of the continent to as far east as western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania.
Burundi Local Information > Burundi > Burundi Specific Results 08-20-0...
Provides a list of leaders by country and date.
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 BPR Mailing List Digest: 11/13/00
"In this, the president and I are allies, not opponents.
Chlenov, president of the VAAD Jewish umbrella organization.
lists, and that's why it is routinely excluded.
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