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Burundi

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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
    BurundiPolitics

    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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  • Burundian troops serving in Somalia. Credit: AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
    BurundiPolitics

    Burundi’s newest, biggest rebel group

    By Jordan Anderson
    October 3, 2017
    Who are the Popular Forces of Burundi?  On 27 August, Burundian rebel leader Major General Jérémie Ntiranyibagira announced the reorganisation of the militant group, the ...
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  • Sauti Sol performing in Burundi. Credit: SautiSol.
    BurundiSociety

    Burundi today, like yesterday, needs Sauti Sol

    By Roland Rugero
    October 2, 2017
    If the youth of Burundi are deprived of the opportunity to sing together for hope, where then should they go? Dear Ketty, I read ...
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  • Sauti Sol with Burundi's Vice-President Gaston Sindimwo. Credit: Sauti Sol.
    BurundiCultureSociety

    An open letter to Sauti Sol, as you perform in my beloved Burundi

    By Ketty Nivyabandi
    September 22, 2017
    I want to believe you don’t know about the crimes against humanity committed by the authorities with whom you dine. But I find it ...
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  • Burundian troops arrive in Mogadishu to serve under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Credit: AMISOM Photo / Ilyas Ahmed.
    BurundiPolitics

    The Burundian army’s dangerous over-reliance on peacekeeping

    By Richard Moncrieff & Thierry Vircoulon
    September 1, 2017
    Burundi needs international peacekeeping missions to keep its troops paid and happy. Peacekeeping missions need Burundian troops. But for how long? The crisis that ...
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  • Burundian refugees at a camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo. MONUSCO / Abel Kavanagh.
    BurundiSociety

    Why Burundians continue to flee

    By Thijs Van Laer
    August 24, 2017
    Despite government claims that Burundi is safe, refugees say they will only consider returning under three conditions. On 20 July, President Pierre Nkurunziza left ...
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  • People protest against President Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term in 2015. Credit: Igor Rugwiza.
    BurundiPolitics

    Burundi 2020: Is President Nkurunziza already at it again?

    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    August 15, 2017
    The government claims Burundi is safe, that political disagreements have been resolved, and that the people want term limits removed ahead of 2020. Two ...
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  • BurundiPhoto of the Week

    Photo of the Week: The Burundi Coup

    By Igor Rugwiza
    April 10, 2017
    On 13 May 2015, General Godefroid Niyombare declared on Burundian radio that President Pierre Nkurunziza had been overthrown. In the preceding weeks, protesters had ...
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  • BurundiPolitics

    4 ways in which the Burundi crisis is far from over

    By Burundi network
    February 21, 2017
    The government is calling on its 380,000 refugees to return home, claiming the country is safe. Why does no-one believe them? Since the start ...
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