Pierre Nkurunziza looks set to win a third term as president of Burundi in elections on Tuesday despite months of protest.
Three opposition candidates, including two former presidents, have announced their withdrawal from Burundi’s upcoming presidential elections.
Six people, including one police officer, have been killed in gun battles as the nation awaits election results from Monday’s parliamentary poll.
Pierre Nkurunziza claims an early victory for his ruling CNDD-FDD party, despite the opposition of domestic civic groups, AU and the UN.
Assailants attacked numerous polling stations in Burundi overnight, while the AU says it won’t observe the elections.
After weeks of political crisis and unrest in which dozens of protesters were killed, Burundi is expected to hold parliamentary polls on Monday.
Aid agencies say the number of unaccompanied minors among refugees arriving in Rwanda is uncharacteristically high.
Analysts don’t believe that an end to the violence will be enough to revive the economy, especially if Pierre Nkurunziza is re-elected as president.
Despite a call by East African leaders for Burundi to delay its upcoming elections this month, no pressure was put on the president to step down.
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.
A demonstrator has been shot dead and two others wounded when police opened fire on a group of about 100 protesters.
The president’s refusal to step down has enraged even those from his own Hutu community.
The Burundian presidency pushed back elections by 10 days as police clashed with protesters, shooting and killing a soldier.
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza says Islamist militants were behind the attempted coup, but Al-Shabab has described the claim as "dumbfounding".
Presidents in talks with Pierre Nkurunziza condemned the coup as Godefroid Niyombare ordered Bujumbura airport closed to stop the president returning.
Major General Godefroid Niyombare’s announcement he had fired Nkurunziza was met with jeers from the presidential office, but cheers from citizens.
Protesters are demanding that Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza abandon his bid for a third term.
Heavy gunfire has been heard after police fired teargas at protesters throwing stones in a suburb of Burundi’s capital Bujumbura.
Tens of thousands of refugees from Burundi are fleeing political violence and targeted attacks by the ruling party’s youth wing militia.
After weeks of protests, Burundi’s president’s bid for a third term has been approved by the Constitutional Court, causing political chaos.
Burundi’s constitutional court is to examine the legality of the president’s bid for a third term, after recent protests that left five people dead.
Demonstrations in Burundi continued for a second day as the country’s president tries to cling to power for a third term.
Burundi’s president has approved a Bill that forces journalists to reveal sources and forbids stories deemed to undermine national security.
President Jacob Zuma ended a three-day visit to Burundi on Friday, applauding the democratic improvements in the country.
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.
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza hopes his personal brand of "grassroots development" and religious fervour will win him re-election next month.
African leaders revelled in their continent’s economic growth at the World Economic Forum on Africa on Wednesday.
The exiled leader of Burundi’s last rebel group returned to the capital, Bujumbura, on Friday to begin implementing a stalled deal seen as the final obstacle to peace in the tiny Central African country. Agathon Rwasa, leader of the Forces for National Liberation, arrived at Bujumbura airport for talks between his ethnic Hutu group and Burundi’s mixed but Hutu-led government.
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.
Burundi’s last resisting rebel group has said it will stop sporadic fighting with the government to give a stalled peace deal a chance. Burundi’s government and the Forces for National Liberation (FNL) rebels signed a pact almost two years ago to end a persistent insurgency. But the FNL pulled out from a truce monitoring team over objections to parts of the agreement.
Exiled leaders of Burundi’s last active rebel group will return home this week to implement a long awaited peace deal to end a civil conflict that has killed 300 000 people. The persistent insurgency by the Forces for National Liberation is seen by many as the final barrier to lasting stability in the tiny Central African country.
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/ 17 December 2007
Burundi’s state employees went back to work on Monday, ending an unprecedented two-week general strike and months of protests by the small Central African nation’s public sector. The country’s first general strike started on December 3, with civil servants complaining that the government was failing to honour pay hike pledges.