Street children rounded up in Rwanda

Authorities in the southern Rwandan town of Butare have rounded up more than nine-hundred people, most of them street children.

Police say the children are being sent to educational centres.

A BBC correspondent in Kigali says this is the latest in a series of measures aimed at removing from the streets large numbers of children who the authorities allege are behind acts of theft.

Our correspondent adds that there's a climate of general insecurity in Rwanda with frequent attacks in some areas by rebel Hutu militias and the government has been taking strict measures against people without valid documents.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service