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It's been 20 years today since a small East African country descended into turmoil after the death of its president, and I'm not talking about Rwanda. A year before the genocide in that county, the ...

Some 800,000 people, most of them Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were massacred before rebel forces led by Kagame ended the genocide in Rwanda. Burundi is about 85 percent Hutu and 14 percent Tutsi.

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 ...

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame implored neighboring Burundi to avoid the ethnic violence that ended in genocide in his country in 1994, in an emotional speech that was shared on ...

The death of President Melchior Ndadaye in 1993 provided a profound catalyst for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It created an environment in which extremist Hutu leaders exploited ...

The RED-Tabara armed group, based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has renewed attacks in Burundi since late 2023. The group – which is an abbreviation of the French Résistance pour un État ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A global human rights umbrella organization is urging Africa, Europe and the United Nations to send a civilian protection force to Burundi to prevent a possible civil war and ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, Aug 16 (UNHCR) - The hundreds of empty ammunition shells scattered around burned down plastic hangars underlined the severity of the attack at the Gatumba transit centre. It came ...

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 ...