The EastAfrican

January 28 - February 3, 1999

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Kenya, Ethiopia Exchange Words Over Border Skirmish KENYAN AND Ethiopian delegates traded accusations at a meeting called last week to discuss a border skirmish in which 60 Ethiopian government soldiers were killed by rebels of the Oromo Liberation Army.

Presidents Museveni of Uganda, Moi of Kenya and Mkapa of Tanzania at the regional summit during which sanctions imposed on Burundi in 1996 were suspended

Ocheng Son Says `No' to DNA test in Kabaka Row
A SON of Daudi Ocheng, the Ugandan nationalist alleged to be the real father of the present King of Buganda, has instructed his brothers and sisters not to submit to DNA tests in the controversy over the parentage of Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II.

Buyoya Pledges to Restore Peace by Year's End PRESIDENT PIERRE Buyoya's pledge to restore peace in Burundi by the end of the year produced new hope for the strife-torn country in the form of a suspension of sanctions, although there is no firm assurance by the other parties to the conflict that they will co-operate.