Burundi’s top World Health Organization (WHO) official has been kicked out of the country ahead of the May 20 presidential election, after voicing concerns about crowded political rallies. WHO ...

NAIROBI, KenyaNAIROBI, Kenya — Burundi’s internal affairs minister on Thursday announced the country was suspending diplomatic ties with Rwanda, closing their border and deporting Rwandan citizens, ...

NAIROBI, KenyaNAIROBI, Kenya — Burundi’s president on Friday accused Rwanda of funding and training rebels behind an attack last week on the village of Gatumba, close to Burundi’s border with Congo, ...

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations secretary-general is signaling his support for a proposed African Union peacekeeping force for Burundi, even though that country's president has called the idea ...

Burundi's first democratically elected president was assassinated in October 1993 after only 100 days in office, triggering widespread ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi factions. More than ...

JOHANNESBURG — Burundi is becoming the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. An ICC spokesman confirmed that the pullout takes effect Friday, a year after the East African ...

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza. He has ordered the UNHRC to leave the country over its "complicity" in a report accusing Bujumbura of systematic abuses and warning of a risk of genocide.

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 ...

Burundi is set to become the tourism gift of East Africa. Burundi is set to become the tourism gift of East Africa. This is the way Dr. Marina Novelli, a principal lecturer and expert in tourism ...

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 ...

Burundi appears on the verge of coming apart.There are calls for intervention by African Union forces to calm ethnic tensions in a region still traumatized by the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda.