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Burundi’s economy up in smoke after devastating fire
Four months after Bujumbura’s key market was razed to the ground, thousands of traders and the economy itself are reeling from the blow.
Burundi death squads kill 300 in five months
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.
Corpses in Burundi river ignite fears of new unrest
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.
Fragile Burundi kicks off electoral marathon
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.
Burundians fear return to conflict
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…