Chicken becoming affordable IN the quiet village of Buringa in Gihanga Commune, Bubanza Province, a 59-year-old entrepreneur and livestock farmer, Maurice Murishi, is changing the face of poultry ...

Last week, a mass grave was discovered in a village in central Burundi. Builders, breaking ground for a new school, uncovered the skeletal remains of more than 1 000 people who had been hastily buried ...

Since Burundi accused Rwanda of backing a coup attempt against it in 2015, relations between the two countries have been rocky. Most of the Burundian military and political actors suspected of ...

Ndayishimiye has been the president of Burundi since the 2020 election. He secured the leadership of the ruling party CNDD-FDD after the death of previous president Pierre Nkurunziza. Despite ...

Burundi Burundians were wait to hear the results of Thursday's local and parliamentary elections expected to give the ruling party a big majority.

Burundi is heading to the polls in a tightly controlled vote expected to favor the ruling party. The opposition has been blocked as the country faces deepening economic crisis. Read more » Africa ...

Burundi experienced decades of ethnic violence and civil war up to 2005. Under a peace agreement signed in 2000, seats in the parliament are split 60-40 between the two ethnic groups, Hutu and Tutsi.

Burundi is holding elections for the National Assembly and local councils that have excluded the main opposition in one of the world’s poorest nations. Agathon Rwasa, whose faction was blocked ...

Burundi experienced decades of ethnic violence and civil war up to 2005. Under a peace agreement signed in 2000, seats in the parliament are split 60-40 between the two ethnic groups, Hutu and Tutsi.

Burundi held legislative and local elections on Thursday, 5 June 2025, with more than six million registered voters casting ballots to elect members of parliament and communal councillors.

Burundi, a former German colony, faces poverty and economic crisis The country, already one of the poorest in the world, is grappling with widespread shortages, soaring inflation —reportedly ...