Full Coverage: Burundi

14.10.2009 Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Eritrea, Sierra Leone Chad, and Ethiopia score worst in a Global Hunger Index, which links the problem to gender inequalities.

01.07.2008 A new project is being launched to support conflict survivors in Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.

25.03.2008 In Burundi, where a fragile peace now holds, Maggy Barankitse's orphanage and peace villages have changed the lives of as many as 10,000 children who lost their parents to the conflict.

01.10.2007 A policeman-turned--rights-advocate in Burundi and two Sri Lankan professors monitoring rights violations in their country will receive the 2007 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders Tuesday.
From: Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders

07.05.2007 Human rights defenders from Sri Lanka and Burundi share a prestigious award given by 11 of the worldÂ’s leading rights organisations.

04.04.2007 A World Bank-sponsored infrastructure program may soon bring low-cost, high speed connectivity to East and Southern Africa, the only world region not connected to global broadband.

15.12.2006 Now that peace and stability have taken tentative root in much of Africa's Great Lakes region, several of the area's leaders signed a landmark deal Friday to help each other maintain peace and security and build stronger democratic institutions and economic prosperity.

23.06.2006 An estimated 20,000 Rwandans have fled to northern Burundi in the past six months, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres.

26.04.2006 Several years of poor rainfall, compounded by the lack of a national food security policy and chronic poverty, have brought two million people – nearly one in three of Burundi’s population - to the brink of starvation, says a development charity.

23.04.2006 World Vision's chief Africa correspondent says a looming famine should not prompt despair.

27.03.2006 A UN delegation has arrived in Burundi for consultations on the setting up of a truth and reconciliation commission and a special court.

21.03.2006 Burundi must be closely monitored in the countdown to the UN's planned withdrawal by the end of this year, Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned.

28.01.2006 The UN Security Council must stop the deluge of weapons into Africa's Great Lakes region - particularly northern Uganda and Congo - and protect civilians from attacks by armed groups, a leading charity urged.
* Security Council reviews proposed peacebuilding in AfricaÂ’s Great Lakes region

07.10.2005 Schools in Burundi have seen class sizes swell in the first few weeks of term after the newly-elected government's decision to scrap primary school fees brought an extra 500,000 children to school.

21.09.2005 Soccer matches involving Burundian soldiers, rebels and civilians are contributing to the drive for peace and democracy.

16.08.2005 Despite continuing attacks, the Burundi peace process seems to be holding and thousands of refugees and internally displaced people have returned home, according to a new United Nations briefing.

18.07.2005

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02.06.2005 The final phase of Burundi's peace process begins Friday with the start of a historic four-stage election process. Louis-Marie Nindorera from the group Global Rights was recently in Washington to shed some light on the current situation in the country recovering from genocide and 12 years of civil war.

16.05.2005 Although details have not been worked out, Burundi's president and last remaining rebel group, Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL), agreed Sunday to immediately end hostilities and work for sustainable peace in the country. If negotiations succeed, the FNL would join six other rebel movements in the country's transitional government formed to end the civil war between the Tutsi and Hutu, which began in 1993.

15.04.2005 The only remaining rebel group in Burundi said this week it would join the peace process ahead of elections scheduled for later this month. In the Congo, one militia group announced an end to its armed struggle while another sent the last of its conscripts to hand in their weapons. Meanwhile, Ivorians are waiting to see if their president will accept mediator Thabo Mbeki's ruling that the main opposition candidate should be allowed to stand in elections later this year.