A senior opposition official in Burundi on Saturday criticised the African Union for describing the country's election as ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday (11th of July) announced that Burundi had effectively eliminated trachoma as a ...

Burundi human rights campaigners have claimed that as many as 80 people have been tortured since the country spiralled into chaos following weeks of protests against the President Pierre ...

In Burundi, a landlocked nation of 11 million, the importance of the drum is hard to overstate. In the local Kirundi language, “ingoma” means both “drum” and “kingdom” — signifying ...

Burundi: Extend the Special Rapporteur’s mandate and ensure adequate funding for his monitoring and documentation work . Joint Letter To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States ...

I first went to Burundi in 1999, for a now-dismantled early warning organization.The war was in full swing but the peace process was gaining momentum. I worked for UNICEF and the International ...

Burundi had always been poor—it ranks second to last in the world in gross domestic product per capita, according to the World Bank—but Nkurunziza had, incredibly, made it poorer.

Burundi holds his key to the ARC throne as any good finish there will guarantee him a wheeling diadem. Prince Nyerere, who ...

Burundi, a small, landlocked nation in Central Africa and one of the world’s poorest countries, has suffered through decades of violence and instability since gaining independence from Belgium ...

Burundi's military said on Wednesday 10 of its African Union (AU) peacekeepers were killed in an attack on their base in Somalia, while a security source in the region and a Mogadishu-based source ...

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and ...

The population of Burundi, like that of its neighbor Rwanda, is divided between Hutu and Tutsi tribes who have vied for dominance since colonial times. In Rwanda in 1994, ...