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  • Former PM, Alain Guillaume Bunyoni. Courtesy: By RTNB Burundi - La société croud1 ne remplit pas les normes exigées par la BRB (A.G.Bunyoni) image fixe de 00:50 seconds (www.youtube.com), CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102421448
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    Burundi: “The president has crossed the Rubicon – there’s no turning back”

    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    May 11, 2023
    In the wake of the arrest and detention of former PM Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, political observers weigh the consequences. There was some surprise when ...
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    Burundi’s growing femicide problem

    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    April 4, 2023
    As authorities turn a blind eye to the growing cases of violence and spousal murder, women’s rights activist are increasingly vocal. The burial of ...
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  • 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.
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    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.
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    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.
    BurundiPolitics

    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.
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    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.
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    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).
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    “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.
    BurundiSociety

    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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