Category Archives: Burundi
By TransConflict Internally displaced persons of the Ruhororo site are living in difficult conditions amongst an already well established population. Despite the harsh conditions that an IDP must live, matters are made more difficult by the frequent confrontations they encounter … read more »
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By Kris Berwouts I don’t know much about nightlife. Not in Belgium, not in Africa. Least of all do I know about nightlife in Rumonge, Burundi. But last week I was hanging around there with a pal from Belgium and … read more »
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By Kris Berwouts The civil war in Burundi now lies several years behind us. Since November 2003, when the CNDD-FDD integrated the transitional institutions, the rebels and the regular armed forces integrated their troops into a new national army. The … read more »
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Tagged Arusha, Arusha Agreement, Burundi, Bururi, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Lake Tanganyika, Rumonge, Tanzania
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As the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region continues to struggle with multiple trade tax structures and overlapping membership, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for uniform fiscal and macro-economic policies in the 19 states of … read more »
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By Eric Kabeera, A new report by African Development Bank has proposed the establishment of a single currency in the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) member countries, a move that is seen as a stepping stone in … read more »
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Berouk Mesfin Eritea and South Africa formally established diplomatic relations in 1994. Eighteen years later, the two states seem to be strengthening their bilateral relations. In March, Iqbal Jhazbhay, the new South African ambassador to Eritrea, presented his credentials to … read more »
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By Dr Ismail Ahmed, founder of WorldRemit Dr Ismail Ahmed is founder of WorldRemit, a money transfer company which seeks to introduce graeter competetivity into the market. The remittance market in Africa has for too long been monopolised by companies … read more »
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Amanuel Hidrat Our struggle, instead belting with reassuring chorus to the weight, is indeed ram-shackled and directed into all wrong targets as if we are thrown into an elbow-throwing arena of political punditry. We lacked brotherhood and sisterhood that foster … read more »
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Tagged Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Geopolitics, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Isaias, Politics, Politics of Eritrea
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Paris – Three-quarters of African countries and several “Arab Spring” nations are at high or extreme risk of a food crisis, according to an analysis published on Wednesday. In a survey of 197 countries, 59 are most at risk of … read more »
Posted in Burundi, Chad, Comoros, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Somali, South Sudan, Special Reports
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Bujumbura – Villagers in northeast Burundi hacked to death a woman accused of witchcraft and five members of her family, including a baby and two other children, local authorities said on Sunday. On Saturday “a group of people attacked the … read more »
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A Burundian rebel leader blamed for organizing last year’s deadly attack on a bar that killed 36 people is dead. Burundian Army Colonel Kabisa Domitien told reporters Friday that the rebel chief, known by the names “Carmel” and “Mukono,” was … read more »
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Bujumbura – A Burundian anti-graft activist detained two weeks ago for criticising the justice minister over alleged corruption was freed on Tuesday. “I am happy to be freed from prison where I spent two weeks for no reason, because all … read more »
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Harare – Zimbabwe’s constitutional affairs minister on Wednesday cast doubt on President Robert Mugabe’s bid to hold elections this year. A referendum on a proposed new constitution must take place before the holding of general elections. “My assessment is the … read more »
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Bujumbura – Burundi police have detained an anti-graft activist who criticised the country’s justice minister over corruption in the judiciary, where candidates for jobs were expected to pay bribes. Faustin Ndikumana was arrested late on Tuesday and told reporters before … read more »
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A court in Burundi has sentenced 16 people to jail terms ranging from three years to life for killing 36 people in a bar, the most violent attack last year in the central African country, a defence lawyer said on … read more »
Bujumbura – Burundi denied on Saturday that it had asked for an exiled Burundian opposition leader to be arrested in Tanzania and extradited to face murder charges. “As far as I know the Burundian government did not demand that Alexis … read more »
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Bujumbura – Burundi denied on Saturday that it had asked for an exiled Burundian opposition leader to be arrested in Tanzania and extradited to face murder charges. “As far as I know the Burundian government did not demand that Alexis … read more »
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November 28, 2011 by benim
Bujumbura – Two men were arrested in Burundi on Monday over the murder of a Croatian nun and an Italian volunteer in an attack on a religious mission in the central African nation, a police official said. “The culprits of … read more »
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November 23, 2011 by benim
Bujumbura – Government-backed death squads have killed more than 300 members of Burundi’s former rebel group and opposition supporters in covert operations over the past five months, a rights group said on Tuesday. The group said the central African country’s … read more »
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November 8, 2011 by benim
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has sacked six ministers from his cabinet for poor performance, his spokesman said. Minister of Public Security Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, Foreign Affairs Minister Augustin Nsanze, Justice Minister Ancilla Ntakaburimvo, Planning and Communal Development Minister Pierre Mupira, … read more »
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October 17, 2011 by benim
Bujumbura – Police seized weapons and police uniforms during a raid on Burundi’s main university in which a student died from inhaling teargas, and another was arrested, a spokesperson said on Sunday. The coffee-producing nation has enjoyed relative peace since … read more »
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Nairobi – The leader of Burundi’s National Liberation Forces, Agathon Rwasa, planned the attack last month on a bar that killed 39 people, a document from the intelligence services alleged on Thursday. The document appeals to the countries in the … read more »
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September 19, 2011 by benim
Bujumbura – Armed raiders killed more than 20 people and injured some 20 others when they stormed a Burundi bar and opened fire on patrons, a regional official told AFP on Monday. “The death toll is still unclear, but according … read more »
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September 6, 2011 by benim
Bujumbura – Police killed two gunmen in Burundi’s capital after a heavy exchange of fire, police said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of incidents that have raised fears of a new rebellion in the coffee producing nation. Burundi … read more »
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Bujumbura – A cholera outbreak has killed at least seven people in western Burundi, where it has infected more than 400 people in the past three weeks, the health ministry said on Monday. Authorities are treating as an epidemic the … read more »
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A court in Burundi on Monday found a Frenchman guilty of raping five teenagers, giving him a 25-year jail sentence and a fine of 14,000 euros ($20,000). Patrice Faye, 58, was accused of raping five girls aged 13 to 17 … read more »
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Western ambassadors in Burundi are “deeply concerned” by dozens of killings and torture cases in the central African country over the last year, according to an official letter seen by AFP. “We… wish to express our deep concern regarding cases … read more »
Bujumbura – A Burundi court sentenced a journalist Monday to eight months in prison for violating media laws over comments that the country’s security forces could not deter an attack by Somali rebels. The court, however, quashed treason and other … read more »
Bujumbura – A Burundi court freed on Monday a local journalist detained for 10 months on treason charges for questioning the east African country’s ability to respond to an attack by Islamist militants. Jean Claude Kavumbagu, who runs the online … read more »
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Bujumbura – Three people were killed overnight in Burundi in two separate attacks which the authorities blamed on “armed bandits” while locals said the country’s security services were responsible. Two of the dead were a man and his son who … read more »
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