Central Africa: Rwandan human rights group to monitor polls in Burundi, Congo

Members of a Rwandan human rights watchdog, Kangurirwa, are due to travel to Burundi this month to join other electoral observers during the long-awaited Burundian referendum on the new constitution, set for February 28, an official said here Sunday. "We shall dispatch a delegation of about thirty six observers for the Burundi Referendum," said Frank Asiimwe, the director of Kangurirwa. He said the organization also plans to send another team of observers to Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, during the presidential elections scheduled for June this year.