Burundi's parliament has appointed a new human rights commission with a mandate to counter the UN's rights envoy, following the exile of the previous head who criticized the government. The new ...

General Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on the afternoon of April 4 welcomed President of Burundi Évariste Ndayishimiye during his official visit to Vietnam, a move expected to ...

The president of Burundi has claimed that neighbouring Rwanda is planning to foment a conflict in his country, warning that it is backing a rebel group in an effort to destabilise its neighbour ...

Het Afrikaanse land Burundi ligt aan het Tanganyikameer ... dankzij het nog steeds bestaande gevaar en daarmee negatieve reisadvies. Dit wil niet zeggen dat het land niets te bieden heeft of dat ...

Credit: Linus Strandholm/Shutterstock. Tanzania and Burundi have entered into an agreement with two Chinese companies to construct a railway line to transport metals, including nickel, to the port ...

In contrast, relatively little has been said about Burundi’s potential withdrawal of its soldiers from Somalia over a dispute about troop numbers. Burundi had suggested contributing 3 000 of AUSSOM’s ...

Burundi’s central bank may cut interest rates by the end of this year for the first time since it shifted to utilizing borrowing costs rather than money supply to control inflation, its governor ...

For more background, see successive civil society letters to the Human Rights Council, including: DefendDefenders et al., “Burundi: Vital role of the Commission of Inquiry in prompting ...

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye continues to rule with an unrelenting "wave of repression" despite hopes of change when he took office four years ago, Amnesty International said ...

Burundi is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and is vulnerable to climate-related events. The Burundi Urban Resilience Emergency Project (URP), called locally “IBISAGARA BIRAMA” ...

Burundi has suspended diplomatic ties with Rwanda and unilaterally closed its border. The move came last week, as the government accused Rwanda supporting a rebel group known as RED-Tabara. But ...