Burundi’s government has rejected teachers’ demands for better pay and conditions and warned they would face the full force of the law if they did not immediately end strike action.
Twelve people were sentenced to death in Burundi on Thursday for ”massacres, murders and pillage” committed in 1993 at the start of the civil war, the justice ministry said.
More than 70 000 people have fled their homes in central Burundi to escape fighting between the army and forces from one of two main rebel groups, local officials said on Tuesday.
Police launched a grenade and fired shots into a crowd celebrating Italy’s victory in the World Cup, killing three people and wounding 17, officials said on Monday. Police were investigating Sunday’s shooting, Colonel Pierre-Claver Gahungu said. ”We will let you know when we have investigation results,” he said.