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China pledges help

    NAIROBI

    China has pledged to provide Burundi with preferential loans following a five-day trip to the country by President Pierre Buyoya, the PANA news agency reported on Sunday. It quoted a Burundi official as saying the loans would be used to finance “profitable projects” in addition to traditional areas of cooperation between the two countries. One of the projects reportedly includes the building of a hydro-electric dam on the Mpanda river, north of Bujumbura.

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