31.  Twenty Hutu rebel fighters and three government soldiers were killed in clashes overnight on hills overlooking the Burundian capital Bujumbura, the army said Thursday.

32.  They will later meet Rwandan President Paul Kagame before leaving for the Burundian capital Bujumbura.

33.  Two separate shootouts erupted overnight in the Burundian capital leaving two people dead and two other wounded, military sources said Tuesday.

34.  Unidentified gunmen fired into the air and exploded grenades early Thursday near the presidential palace in the Burundian capital to frighten local residents, a defence ministry spokesman said.

35.  Madeleine Albright, the US ambassador to the United Nations, is due in the Burundian capital Saturday for a seven-hour visit.

36.  Meanwhile four people were killed Sunday in a Hutu area of the Burundian capital Bujumbura, foreign journalists reported.

37.  Ntibantunganya had earlier fled to the US embassy in Bujumbura, while other government ministers also fled to the German embassy in the Burundian capital.

38.  One person was killed and seven wounded in the Burundian capital Bujumbura Saturday in a grenade attack on a public bus, police said.

39.  Paul Stromberg, the UNHCR spokesman in the Burundian capital Bujumbura, noted that the pace of expulsions had slowed Wednesday as few refugees remained.

40.  Overall, however, the Burundian capital has remained remarkably quiet amid ten weeks of bloodshed in Rwanda, which has the same ethnic composition as its neighbour.