Full Coverage: Burundi

13.11.2011 A Place at the Table is what it’s called, and a place at the table is what you get. You file in and sit around an elongated table. The older ones amongst us have an apprehensive flashback to 1960s theatrical experiences when audiences were dragged into the action, willingly or unwillingly.

11.10.2010 Twenty-nine countries still have levels of hunger that are “extremely alarming” (Burundi, Chad, DR Congo, and Eritrea) or “alarming”, according to a new Global Hunger Index.
+ UN food committee must recommend curbs on land-grabbing and speculation, says ActionAid

22.07.2010 Kenya has relinquished its position as the most corrupt country in East Africa to Burundi, according to the latest East African Bribery Index, which puts Rwanda as least corrupt.

03.07.2010 Potential conflicts in Burundi, Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda and Turkey deteriorated in June and no conflict situations improved, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch.

28.06.2010 A journalist is shot dead in Rwanda and a pro-government radio station in Burundi is accused of hate speech in the run-up to elections in both countries.

13.05.2010 Africa’s indigenous Batwa women - "the first peoples of central Africa" - experience shocking levels of violence, according to a new report.

03.04.2010 Burundi has been grappling with a serious increase of malaria patients since the start of the year, reports an international medical charity.

03.04.2010 Burundi has been grappling with a serious increase of malaria patients since the start of the year, reports an international medical charity.

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 world’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.