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 ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi – Burundi's ruling party is purging ethnic Tutsi army officers in a campaign of repression, a human rights group says, accusing the international community of inaction amid deadly ...

Foreign affairs minister Olivier Nduhungirehe has refuted Burundi's claims that Rwanda is planning to attack Bujumbura, arguing instead that it is Burundi's actions that pose a direct threat to Rwanda ...

Now Tutsi radicals are trying to "cleanse" the government of the last vestiges of multiethnicity. Bujumbura has nearly been paralyzed by a week-long strike led by a group known as the Society of ...

Throughout Burundi’s history since independence, intermittent bouts of political turmoil have escalated tragically into genocide between the country’s Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. Many international ...

In one of the world’s poorest countries in east-central Africa, an entrenched Hutu president has upended his country’s constitution in order to run for reelection in next year’s election. To that end, ...

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 ...

Seconde Nimenya worries every day about her family back in Burundi. She’s an author living in Seattle. But her brother Cyriaque is stuck in his home in Bujumbura, Burundi’s capital, with his wife, ...

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 ...

The city’s capture by M23 means neighbouring Burundi, an ally of the DRC government, now shares a border with an area ...