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UN appoints new human rights rapporteur

    NAIROBI

    The United Nations High Commission on Human Rights has this week appointed a new expert to study the human rights situation in Burundi. Marie-Therese Aissata Keita of Cote d'Ivoire has been appointed as Special Rapporteur for Burundi, succeeding Paulo Sergio Pinheiro who resigned earlier this year, a UN press statement said on Monday. Aissata Keita, who is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Abidjan Cocody and Director of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Yammoussoukro in her home country, will be expected to submit a report to the next session of the Human Rights Commission in the spring of 2000, the statement added.

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