For several years, Burundi has been militarily involved in the crisis in eastern DR Congo. It operates alongside the Congolese armed forces (FARDC), FDLR – a Kinshasa-backed terrorist group formed by ...

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is a widely documented atrocity, but it is important to note that in 1972, a significant number of people in neighboring Burundi were brutally killed in a largely ...

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The Central African nation of Burundi is slowly trying to put itself back together after a decade of civil war and more than three decades of ethnic conflict. Burundi is just south of Rwanda and ...

A government commission which has exhumed the remains of more than 6,000 Burundians slaughtered in pogroms in 1972 is being accused of exploiting the sombre task for political gain and stoking ethnic ...

THE GOOD news out of Central Africa these days is that Congo is at last making real progress toward ending a devastating civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands and drawn in troops from a half ...

NAIROBI, April 18 -- A band of junior military officers seized control of state radio in the small central African nation of Burundi late today and declared they had taken control of the country. But ...

“I think I say loudly what [others] think quietly,” Alexis Sinduhije told an interviewer earlier this year. The activist and former journalist is one of Burundi’s most prominent and controversial ...