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Gorilla park reopens

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    The Virunga national park, home to several of the world's remaining mountain gorillas, reopened to tourists on Thursday, news organisations reported. Reuters quoted a Rwandan tourism official, Jean Bizimana, as saying the first group of tourists had gone into the park, near the northwestern town of Ruhengeri, accompanied by guards and guides equipped with guns and communications equipment. The security situation in northwest Rwanda has improved significantly since the authorities pursued
    the Interahamwe militia - who had been terrorising the area since the 1994 genocide - into eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). There has also been a successful campaign to persuade Interahamwe to leave the bush, lay down their arms and undergo "re-education", officials in Rwanda and eastern DRC told IRIN.

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