IN what remains of a cemetery, at what used to be the edge of Bujumbura, the living displace the dead. Burundi’s largest city is growing so fast that people have built homes where once there were ...
GENEVA/BUJUMBURA, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Conflict in Congo has sent over 84,000 refugees fleeing into neighbouring Burundi this month in the second major influx this year, overwhelming the country's ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Amisia Aleko, who lives in the poorest area of the main city of the world’s poorest country, smiles when ...
Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) Kenya Limited is selling its stake in its Burundi subsidiary, marking an exit from the market after 16 years. The listed bank said it will be selling its 83.67 percent stake ...
At its 60th session (8 September-8 October 2025), it should extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi. 2025 marks ten years since the outbreak of ...
The railway promises to ease transport, open new investment opportunities and strengthen economic ties between the two nations. Credit: Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency. Tanzania ...
Six people accused of witchcraft were killed, burned alive, stoned or beaten by a militia in Burundi, a local official told AFP on Wednesday. The official and witnesses, who all asked for anonymity, ...
Burundi's parliamentary elections are underway, shadowed by concerns over fairness. The ruling CNDD-FDD party is heavily favored after the main opposition, CNL, faced significant obstacles, including ...
The impoverished, landlocked country in east Africa has seen decades of ethnic violence, civil war and authoritarian rule. A former rebel group, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy - ...
Burundi is holding elections for the National Assembly and local councils that have excluded the main opposition in one of the world’s poorest nations. Agathon Rwasa, whose faction was blocked from ...
Burundians are set to vote Thursday in the country’s first legislative elections since 2020, when President Evariste Ndayishimiye assumed office. Voters will choose lawmakers to serve on the National ...
Since the start of the year, tens of thousands of people have fled across the border here from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), driven out by a surge in armed violence. They arrive in ...
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