More fighting in Rwanda

At least eighty people are reported to have been killed in fresh unrest in northwestern Rwanda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Rwandan military officials say the army repulsed an attack on a barracks and a training camp by some five-hundred Rwandan Hutu militiamen, killing fifty of them and losing two of their own number.

According to the officials, the retreating force then killed thirty Tutsi civilians from an adjacent refugee transit camp.

There's been no independent confirmation of the casualty figures.

The Nkamira transit camp houses survivors of last week's massacre of Congolese Tutsis at Mudende in which, according to official figures, around three-hundred people died.

The human rights group Amnesty International says it's receiving reports every day of civilians being killed in Rwanda as the conflict between the government and Hutu militiamen intensifies.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service