... They forgot that leaders across the region have the same attitude to democratic elections; that across the region elections are rigged and the results of the elections known before the populace even goes to the polls. The EAC has chosen to support the perpetrators of abuse and not the victims...
... Emerging from the meeting [with Kagame] into the darkened streets of Kigali, I knew there would be no equal justice or real democracy as long as Kagame held power...
A Burundian court opened the trial Friday of a journalist accused of treason for charging that the country's security forces were incapable of deterring an attack by Somali insurgents...
Burundi police arrested a journalist for alleged "treason" Saturday over an article questioning whether the security forces could deal with an attack like one that hit Uganda a week ago...
Attackers in Burundi chopped off the limbs of a 5-year-old albino boy and pulled out his mother's eye, killing them over the belief that their body parts would bring wealth and success...
Two Burundian soldiers went on a shooting spree Saturday, killing a colleague and wounding a civilian in the latest in a string of incidents involving the army...
BURUNDI HOLDS A CRUCIAL PRESIDENTIAL election this June, and one thing is clear: It is up to member states of the East African Community to ensure that it is free, fair and peaceful...
The group of around 110 soldiers were responsible for protecting leaders of the ex-rebel group the National Liberation Forces (FNL), while training a newly created FNL-national army coalition, which has now taken over from the AU...
Burundi's main anti-corruption watchdog on Monday alleged that funds allocated to the presidency had been misused and urged parliament to stall the 2010 budget vote...
Security Council today extended for another year the United Nations political mission in Burundi, calling for full support for next year's elections in the war-scarred African country while voicing concern at continuing human rights violations...
Burundi's government should immediately reverse a new policy of deporting Rwandan asylum seekers without considering their cases, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 27, 2009, Interior Minister Edouard Nduwimana ordered police to return 103 asylum seekers to Rwanda...
Months after transforming itself from a rebel movement into a political party, Burundi's Forces nationales de la liberation (FNL), is embroiled in a leadership wrangle that analysts warn could jeopardize the country's fragile peace...
The leader of Burundi's former rebel group on Thursday warned of a resumption of violence if the government recognises a splinter faction that claims to have ousted him...
Fifteen people were killed, 39 others were injured and three were missing under rubble when a building under construction collapsed in central Burundi, medical officials said on Friday ...
Rwanda and Burundi have joined the East African Community Customs Union, which should lead to lower prices, as goods from fellow members are now duty free...
In 2008, more than 1,000 people were killed and nearly 1,300 injured by armed violence in Burundi, where the homicide rate is relatively high at 12.3 for 100,000 inhabitants...
Integrating the Forces for National Liberation (FNL) is seen as the last hurdle for peace in Burundi, raising hopes that the tiny nation may shuck off its violent past...
