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Gunmen lobbed seven grenades at a bar in the capital over the weekend, wounding 36 people in the fourth grenade attack in Bujumbura since July. Police were on Monday searching…
Water levels on Lake Tanganyika, the world’s second-deepest lake, have dropped more than 1,5m, creating problems at Burundi’s main port and raising concerns among…
Burundi’s Parliament overwhelming elected a former rebel leader president on Friday, culminating a three-year peace process after almost 12 years of civil war in the central…
A former rebel group in Burundi has won the majority of seats in the first parliamentary elections in the war-ravaged Central African nation in 12 years, the top election…
A court has convicted 13 people and given them sentences ranging from the death penalty to two years’ imprisonment for their role in the killing of a senior World Health…
Burundi will hold a referendum in February on an interim Constitution that needs to be put in place before holding elections, after postponing the vote three times for lack of…
Pro-government Mayi-Mayi militia battled former rebels for control of an east Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town in a week of artillery and gun battles that sent the town’s…
Militias in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue to recruit hundreds of child soldiers — apparently in an effort to collect cash — in defiance of a national…
When the mob came to kill the 1 000 women, children and old people who had come to him for refuge, Evariste Nyatanyi gently told the angry, machete-wielding men that they would…
Hutu rebels attacked a military checkpoint near a primary school in eastern Burundi, killing two pupils, a teacher and four government soldiers, government and rebel officials…
