Burundi President Évariste Ndayishimiye at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images In 2015, Burundi’s then president Pierre Nkurunziza sought to change the ...

How do you view the human rights situation in your country, Burundi? The human rights situation in Burundi is continuing to deteriorate in an alarming way. People are being killed every day, every ...

1993-2005 - Burundi Civil War: In revenge, some Frodebu members massacre Tutsis, and the Tutsi-dominated army begins reprisals. Burundi is plunged into an ethnic conflict which claims some 300,000 ...

The Republic of Burundi is a country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa. The country is bordered by Tanzania to the east and south, Rwanda to the north, and the Democratic Republic of ...

Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country's overdependence on the use of biomass (firewood). The second is outdated agricultural practices that have led to ...

National Geographic honors champion of Burundi’s efforts to address land degradation. Land degradation and deforestation cost 4% of Burundi’s GDP every year. Rapid population growth and unsustainable ...

For the past 10 years, the Government of Burundi has engaged in a decentralization process to strengthen social cohesion and empower local communities. Most of Burundi’s local administrations continue ...

The presence of the Rwandan head of government – a level of representation unheard of for several years – was accompanied by an optimistic speech and a letter from President Paul Kagame calling for “a ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Ambassador Rémy Barampama, Technical Adviser to the ...

What Chance for Democracy After President Pierre Nkurunziza’s Death? What does the death of Burundi’s long-term president Pierre Nkurunziza mean for the country? His death comes at a politically ...

When Burundi goes to the polls on June 28, it will be the first of four countries in the East African Community (EAC) to hold presidential elections over the next eight months. Neighboring leaders and ...

Burundi has become the first country to pull out of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ), a spokesman for the court in the Hague told dpa on Friday. The country had launched the process of leaving ...