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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.
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.
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.
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…
The Burundian army said that about 50 rebels from the National Liberation Forces were killed in heavy fighting on Wednesday that also left two government soldiers dead. The…
Burundi’s acute political deadlock and the collapse of peace talks have raised fears that the nation might fall back into the deadly conflict that devastated the country for more…
Burundi’s new President, Pierre Nkurunziza, was sworn in Bujumbura on Friday as the country’s first elected leader after 12 years of war at a ceremony attended by several other…
Scattered violence forced the early closure of more than 250 polling stations in Burundi on Friday, threatening to mar local elections critical to the country’s peace process…
Scattered violence at and near polling stations, including a deadly grenade attack and the shooting of a South African peacekeeper working for the United Nations, threatened to…
Clutched in small groups and squatting uneasily outside a clinic in northern Burundi, the growing crowd of Hutus fleeing village genocide courts in Rwanda looked anything but…
Burundi’s President Domitien Ndayizeye has ratified the country’s new power-sharing Constitution as the country slowly progresses towards putting behind it an 11-year civil war.…
