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Burundi

  • Members of the Sangwe cooperative of Rugazi Hill, Burundi, collecting goats they bought with their government loan. Credit: Jimbere Magazine.
    BurundiEconomyEditor's PicksPolitics

    The (surprisingly political) cost of a goat in Burundi

    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    April 5, 2022
    Critics say state-backed farming cooperatives have become a tool for recruiting people into the ruling party and are sowing division. When Jean Niyangabo, 33, ...
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  • Evariste Ndayishimiye inherited an abusive and internationally isolated country in 2020. Credit: Evariste Ndayishimiye.
    BurundiPoliticsTop story

    Burundi: How different is President Ndayishimiye?

    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    August 6, 2021
    After Nkurunziza’s dark final years, opposition members, journalists and activists note signs of light from the past year, but remain cautious. At his inauguration ...
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  • In 2015, thousands in Burundi took to the streets to protest against President Nkurunziza running for a third term. Credit: Igor Rugwiza.
    BurundiPoliticsSocietyTop story

    I cry, not for Nkurunziza, but for the lives he broke

    By Ketty Nivyabandi
    June 10, 2020
    I cry for the country we could have had these past five years, for the blood that could have been spared, for the memories ...
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  • The newly-elected Evariste Ndayishimiye (left) campaigning alongside outgoing president Pierre Nkurunziza (right). Credit: Evariste Ndayishimiye.
    BurundiPoliticsTop story

    Burundi: Can newly-elected President Ndayishimiye deliver change?

    By Stephanie Wolters
    June 2, 2020
    Burundi’s new president inherits an internationally isolated and internally fractured country.  On 20 May, as most of the world was preoccupied with COVID-19, Burundi ...
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  • President Pierre Nkurunziza (left) has been in power in Burundi since 2005. Credit: PNUD Burundi / Patrice Brizard.
    BurundiEditor's PicksPolitics

    Burundi: A president “chosen by God” and those who disagree

    By Paul Mulindwa
    December 4, 2019
    Pierre Nkurunziza continues to tighten his grip ahead of May 2020 elections. Is it too late to stop the crisis deepening? Four years after ...
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  • What's the latest from Burundi? Credit: Brice Blondel.
    Africa InsidersBurundiPolitics

    Insiders Insight: All quiet in Burundi? Not quite.

    By Africa Insiders
    September 11, 2018
    This week’s free preview section (scroll down to see it) is about the latest developments in Burundi since its political crisis hit the international headlines ...
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  • There are over 230,000 Burundian refugees still in Tanzania. Credit: Gilles Amadou Ouédraogo (LWF).
    BurundiEditor's PicksSocietyTanzania

    “There is pressure on us”: Burundian refugees in Tanzania pushed to return

    By Thijs Van Laer
    August 21, 2018
    With words and actions, the Tanzanian is pressuring Burundian refugees to go home, putting them at greater risk of abuses. Over the last few ...
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  • Innovative approaches to crop-livestock integration are leading the way to improved food-sufficiency in Burundi. Credit: William Moseley.
    BurundiSocietyTop story

    Is food self-sufficiency making a comeback?

    By William Moseley
    June 15, 2018
    Qatar and Burundi have been forced to innovate due to political crises. But the rest of the world could learn a lot from their ...
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  • When President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a third term in 2015, it led to widespread protests. Credit: Igor Rugwiza.
    BurundiPolitics

    Burundi’s referendum is another nail in the coffin of a once hopeful peace

    By Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs, Angela Muvumba Sellström & Jesper Bjarnesen
    May 17, 2018
    If today’s vote goes President Nkurunziza’s way – as it almost certainly will – more of Burundi’s hard-won democratic freedoms will be sacrificed. The ...
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  • Burundi's crisis began in April 2015 when President Nkurunziza announced his bid for a third term. Credit: PNUD Burundi / aaron Nsavyimana
    BurundiEditor's PicksPolitics

    The Burundi peace talks are all wrong

    By Carine Kaneza Nantulya
    December 19, 2017
    Not only has the latest round of peace negotiations failed. It has also fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem in the first place. Earlier this month, ...
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