Burundi’s main opposition parties have said holding free and fair elections on June 5 is "impossible" and that the result should not be recognised.
The Burundian presidency pushed back elections by 10 days as police clashed with protesters, shooting and killing a soldier.
Burundi’s armed forces chief announced that an attempted coup against President Pierre Nkurunziza, who is in hiding in Tanzania, had failed.
Protesters refuse to end demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid to run for a third term. So far, more than a dozen people have died.
Four months after Bujumbura’s key market was razed to the ground, thousands of traders and the economy itself are reeling from the blow.
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/ 22 November 2011
A rights group says more than 300 members of Burundi’s former rebel group and opposition supporters have been killed by state-backed death squads.
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/ 23 September 2010
At a side of the Rusizi River in Burundi, not far from a group of hippos, lies the first body, a headless man naked to the waist.
Burundi’s peace deal and democratic ambitions will be put to the test on Monday, with the start of the first phase of an electoral marathon.
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/ 14 October 2008
In recent weeks, Burundi has seen a gruesome string of murders and mutilations of albinos, whose body parts are sold to witchdoctors.
Burundi’s government and the last active rebel group on Monday signed an unconditional ceasefire agreement, raising hopes of a definitive end to the small Central African nation’s 15-year civil war. The deal between the government and the National Liberation Forces (FNL) was reached after a six-week round of fresh fighting.