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KIRUNDI ONE OF SEVEN NEW LANGUAGES ON SBS RADIO
Kirundi is the primary language spoken in the East African country of Burundi... READ MORE›
INTERNATIONAL COURT OPENS PROBE INTO BURUNDI DEADLY VIOLENCE
International Criminal Court judges have authorized an investigation into allegations of state-sponsored crimes in the East African country of Burundi that... READ MORE›
BURUNDI'S CABINET GIVES BACKING TO EXTENSION OF PRESIDENT'S RULE
Burundi cabinet okays legal reforms to allow nkurunziza stay on... READ MORE›
BURUNDI FIRST TO QUIT INTERNATIONAL COURT
Burundi has become the first country to withdraw its membership from the International Criminal Court ICC ... READ MORE›
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MYSTERY DEEPENS AFTER AFRICAN TEENS VANISH FROM U.S. ROBOTICS FAIR
The Burundi team disappeared after the three-dayA FIRST Global Challenge that kicked off in Washington on July 16... READ MORE›
ROTTEN HARDLY DENMARK IS HAPPIEST NATION AGAIN
The scholars behind the World Happiness Report said they tried to take both types of data into account... READ MORE›
U.N. DISCOVERS THAT SOME PEACEKEEPERS HAVE DISTURBING PASTS
But Burundian human rights groups have expressed concern that the funds are benefiting the financially troubled government... READ MORE›
DR CONGO FORCES KILL AT LEAST 18 BURUNDI REFUGEES
Congolese security forces have killed at least 18 Burundian refugees during clashes over plans to send some of them home... READ MORE›
BURUNDIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BEGINS AFTER NIGHT OF VIOLENCE
Every major opposition party in this impoverished African nation has boycotted the election... READ MORE›
BURUNDI MOVES TO QUIT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Burundi's lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly voted in support of a withdrawal from the International Criminal Court ICC ... READ MORE›
ORPHANAGE FOUNDER FROM AFRICA WINS PRIZE IN MEMORY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Ms. Barankitse was born in Burundi, a central African nation where a tumultuous ethnic conflict pit her people, the Tutsis, against the Hutus... READ MORE›
VOICES FROM BURUNDI SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES
Ms. Nivyabandi also fled Burundi in 1993, when civil war erupted after soldiers from the country's Tutsi minority assassinated the first president elected from the Hutu majority... READ MORE›
EMMANUEL NIYONKURU SHOT DEAD IN BUJUMBURA
Burundi's environment minister, Emmanuel Niyonkuru has been shot dead by unknown assailants in the capital Bujumbura, police said... READ MORE›
BURUNDI HOLDS ELECTIONS AFTER NIGHT OF GUNFIRE
At a half-dozen polling stations, only a trickle of people were seen voting, pressing an ink-stained thumb on a ballot... READ MORE›
IN BURUNDI PRESIDENT PIERRE NKURUNZIZAS PUSH FOR POWER IS MARKED BY BLOODSHED
Despite being sentenced to death in absentia for abuses by a Burundian court, Mr. Nkurunziza indeed went on to become president after the war ended... READ MORE›
BURUNDI EYES RWANDA WITH SUSPICION
Instead, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda said Mr. Nkurunziza should not run again because he had failed his people, a remark that angered Burundian officials... READ MORE›
BELGIUM AND EU ACT OVER 'RISING RISK'
Belgium says those among about 500 Belgians in the country whose presence is not essential should leave... READ MORE›
FEAR STALKS BURUNDI AS BESIEGED REGIME TURNS TO TORTURE
Victims say president Pierre Nkurunziza is trying to turn Hutus against Tutsis as protests continue against government... READ MORE›
SWITZERLAND REPLACES DENMARK AS THE WORLD'S HAPPIEST COUNTRY
According to the third World Happiness Report compiled by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network SDSN, the European nation ranks as the world's happiest nation... READ MORE›
RWANDAN PRESIDENT URGES BURUNDI NOT TO REPEAT GENOCIDE
Paul Kagame says president of neighbouring Burundi should have learned the lessons of 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi and moderate Hutu... READ MORE›
BURUNDI ELECTIONS: PIERRE NKURUNZIZA SET TO WIN DISPUTED THIRD TERM AS PRESIDENT
One candidate, Agathon Rwasa, said Nkurunziza's unconstitutional third term would lead to the self-imposed political isolation of Burundi ... READ MORE›
BELGIANS URGED TO LEAVE BURUNDI BY CNDD-FDD
Burundi's ruling party says all citizens of its former colonial power, Belgium, should leave the country... READ MORE›
BURUNDI TALKS ADJOURNED AFTER GOVERNMENT FAILS TO APPEAR
Mediation aimed at ending unrest caused by president Pierre Nkurunzizas controversial bid for a third term suspended until after election on Tuesday... READ MORE›
BURUNDI PRESIDENT PRESSES ON IN DISPUTED RE-ELECTION EFFORT
Nkurunziza's decision was a violation of the Arusha peace accords, which ended more than a decade of war that left about 300,000 Burundians dead... READ MORE›
FOREIGN JOURNALISTS AMONG 17 ARRESTED IN BURUNDI SWOOP
At least 17 people, including two foreign journalists, have been arrested in a late night police raid in Burundi's capital Bujumbura, a presidential spokesperson said... READ MORE›
BURUNDI PRESIDENT WINS 3RD TERM IN ELECTION BOYCOTTED BY RIVALS
NAIROBI Kenya President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi was declared the winner on Friday of a national election in which nearly every opposition party boycotted the polls... READ MORE›
BURUNDI'S DE FACTO INTERNAL SECURITY CHIEF KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACK ON CAR
Gen Adolphe Nshimirimana was widely seen as the crisis-hit central African nation's de facto internal security chief and even considered the regime's No 2... READ MORE›
ASSASSINATION IN BURUNDI BRINGS A VOW OF VENGEANCE
President Pierre Nkurunziza called the killing an assassination and said on Twitter Condolences to the family and to all Burundians... READ MORE›
BURUNDI CIVIL WAR FEARS AS PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF CAMPAIGN OF MURDER
As president Pierre Nkurunziza continues to cling to power, Amnesty International has documented arbitrary arrests, disappearances and deaths... READ MORE›
BURUNDI GOES TO THE POLLS IN DISPUTED ELECTION AFTER NIGHT OF VIOLENCE
President Pierre Nkurunziza casually casts his vote as he bids for a third term in office, while opposition candidates boycott ballot... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA AMONG THE WORLD'S HAPPIEST COUNTRIES
At the bottom of the list of more than 150 countries was Burundi, where a violent political crisis broke out last year... READ MORE›
STUDENTS IN BURUNDI SEEK REFUGE AT US EMBASSY AMID POLITICAL TURMOIL
About 100 university students in Burundi are in the US embassy's parking lot seeking refuge amid the country's political turmoil an embassy statement confirmed Thursday... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 30 BURUNDIAN REFUGEES DIE IN CLASHES WITH CONGOLESE SECURITY FORCES
Refugee agency, more than 2,000 Burundian refugees live in Kamanyola with host families... READ MORE›
'DON'T FILM ME' VOTERS TELL REPORTERS AS THEY WASH OFF INK AFTER CASTING VOTE
Burundi elections 'Don't film me' voters tell reporters as they wash off ink after casting vote... READ MORE›