Category : BURUNDI

Burundian authorities have arrested four former military officials suspected of playing a role in the assassination of the country’s first democratically elected President Melchior Ndadaye...

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet expressed outrage on Thursday at comments by Burundi’s ambassador in New York comparing the chairman of a UN...

The East African Community-mediated Inter-Burundi dialogue, scheduled for Wednesday, October 24, seemed to falter after the government and ruling party delegates failed to turn up....

Burundi has suspended some foreign non-governmental organisations for three months for violating a new law. The National Security Council secretary Maj Gen Silas Ntigurirwa said...

Burundi on Monday threatened to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and sue its commissioners who authored a 272-page report that said the...

Burundi’s ambassador in Geneva struggled to explain to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday why his government had thrown out a UN team that...

Burundian opposition leaders have called for the next mediated session, expected later this month, to be the last one. The facilitation team, under former president...

More crimes against humanity were committed in Burundi in 2017 and 2018, whipped up by rhetoric from top officials including President Pierre Nkurunziza, a U.N....