At the UN Human Rights Council’s 51st session, in October 2022, the Council extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi, which it established a year ...

Outgoing Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza died after suffering a cardiac arrest on Monday, according to a statement posted on the official Burundi government Twitter account. Outgoing Burundi ...

This week, Burundian authorities once again displayed their contempt for human rights by walking out of the country’s review before the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva. The Burundi delegation ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi’ (AP) — Thousands of Burundians on Saturday participated in government-sanctioned demonstrations against neighboring Rwanda whom it accuses of supporting a rebellion to topple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Gunmen from the Red Tabara rebel group killed nine people and injured others in an overnight attack in ...

Diplomatically isolated and its economy on the skids, Burundi is cautiously reaching out to its opponents in a bid to ease a deepening four-year-old crisis. In the past few days, President Pierre ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The European Union on ...

GITEGA, Burundi--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) recently signed a loan agreement worth $5.9million with the Burundi Government to upgrade a major road connection between the ...

Amid renewed talks with the European Union, the Burundi government has recently made moves to resolve disputes with various media that have been restricted since the 2015 political crisis — giving ...