Burundi threatens to cut ties with UN envoy: diplomats
Burundi is threatening to cut ties with the UN envoy appointed to the country, ahead of elections next year that the government in Bujumbura insists...
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Burundi to seize property of govt critics
Burundi’s government has continued to defy calls to resolve a political crisis in the country, with the latest order by the Supreme Court for the...
Burundi court seizes assets of opposition figures
Burundi’s chief justice has ordered the seizure of property belonging to jailed army officers and exiled opposition activists accused of supporting a supposed coup plot...
Free press should be barred from 2020 poll: Burundi commissioner
A senior Burundi election official has called for independent media to be barred from covering the country’s presidential polls in 2020, local press and witnesses...
Burundi bans BBC in media clampdown
NAIROBI, Burundi on Friday banned the BBC from operating, adding extra pressure to journalists in a country already ranked amongst the worst in the world...
Government asks Rwandan, Burundian refugees to go home
Kampala. The Minister of Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Mr Hilary Onek, has asked refugees from stable countries such as Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan to...
Burundi frees girls who defaced president, warns parents
Following an international outcry and widespread ridicule over the detention of three schoolgirls who scribbled on President Pierre Nkurunziza’s picture in textbooks, Burundi on Tuesday...
Burundi children arrested for defacing president in textbook – HRW
Authorities in Burundi rounded seven schoolchildren last week for scribbling on the president’s photo in their textbooks, according to international rights group, Human Rights Watch....
UN says Burundi forces closure of its rights office there
NAIROBI, — Burundi’s government has forced the United Nations human rights office in the troubled East African country to close after 23 years, the U.N....
Even if Rwanda didn’t exist, Burundi’s issues will persist – Kagame
Rwandan president Paul Kagame has finally spoken about strained relations between his country and neighbouring Burundi. The relation is still the subject of mediation by...
