‘I visited the world’s poorest country and couldn’t believe how wrong people are about it’
On a quest to right some wrongs about a poor African country, a traveller discovered that despite Burundi being one of the ...
M23 rebels face Burundian forces in eastern Congo, heightening war fears
NAIROBI (Reuters) -As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, ...
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Burundi president warns Rwanda against attacking
Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye warned Rwanda against attacking it as tension rises over the deadly conflict in ...
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Human Rights Watch World Report 1998
The opposing sides in the four-year-old civil war in Burundi raped, tortured, and killed thousands of civilians and looted and destroyed civilian property in 1997. The Tutsi-dominated armed forces ...
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Ex-army chief killed as fears grow of new Burundi civil war
The former head of Burundi's army during its 13-year civil war was assassinated Saturday, further fuelling fears of a new civil war in the restive east central African country. Colonel Jean ...
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Burundi: Who is Evariste Ndayishimiye?
Ndayishimiye, 52, now takes the helm of Burundi leadership as the country seeks to shake off the undoing of years-long ethnic-based civil war and economic ruin. He joined the Hutu militia after he ...