Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...

PARIS — "It felt like an injustice to me,” said the rapper and novelist Gaël Faye, about having to leave civil-war-torn Burundi in 1995 to come live in France. Faye, who was 13 at the time, had to ...

Johannesburg — A REPORT by New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch blames last month's massacre of Tutsi refugees at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi on the Forces for National Liberation ...

For several years, Burundi has been militarily involved in the crisis in eastern DR Congo. It operates alongside the Congolese armed forces (FARDC), FDLR – a Kinshasa-backed terrorist group formed by ...

A government commission which has exhumed the remains of more than 6,000 Burundians slaughtered in pogroms in 1972 is being accused of exploiting the sombre task for political gain and stoking ethnic ...

The Central African nation of Burundi is slowly trying to put itself back together after a decade of civil war and more than three decades of ethnic conflict. Burundi is just south of Rwanda and ...

NAIROBI, April 18 -- A band of junior military officers seized control of state radio in the small central African nation of Burundi late today and declared they had taken control of the country. But ...

“I think I say loudly what [others] think quietly,” Alexis Sinduhije told an interviewer earlier this year. The activist and former journalist is one of Burundi’s most prominent and controversial ...