The African Union has appointed President Évariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi as the Special Envoy for the Sahel region. The ...

The official and witnesses said the incident happened after accusations made by members of the ruling party's powerful youth ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday (11th of July) announced that Burundi had effectively eliminated trachoma as a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the eighth country in WHO’s African Region to reach this important ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially announced that Burundi has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, marking a major milestone in the country's fight against neglected ...

Burundi human rights campaigners have claimed that as many as 80 people have been tortured since the country spiralled into chaos following weeks of protests against the President Pierre ...

I first went to Burundi in 1999, for a now-dismantled early warning organization.The war was in full swing but the peace process was gaining momentum. I worked for UNICEF and the International ...

IN a move that underscores Tanzania’s growing investment in specialist healthcare, the Benjamin Mkapa Zonal Referral Hospital ...

Burundi: Extend the Special Rapporteur’s mandate and ensure adequate funding for his monitoring and documentation work . Joint Letter To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States ...

Burundi had always been poor—it ranks second to last in the world in gross domestic product per capita, according to the World Bank—but Nkurunziza had, incredibly, made it poorer.

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and ...

In Burundi, a landlocked nation of 11 million, the importance of the drum is hard to overstate. In the local Kirundi language, “ingoma” means both “drum” and “kingdom” — signifying ...