Civil war between 1993 and 2006 left Burundi with a shortage of antiretroviral drugs, funds, and testing facilities. Efforts to control the disease have also been restricted by a large population of ...

The United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) decided in December 2024 to replace the current AU Transition Mission in ...

Burundi's governing party ... African country was plunged into its worst crisis since the end of a 12-year civil war in 2005, when Mr Nkurunziza's ultimately successful bid for a third term ...

Before the civil war, Mr Nkurunziza, who had graduated in sports education, was a teacher and assistant lecturer at the University of Burundi. Reuters Mr Nkurunziza took pride in the fact that he ...

Ndayishimiye, 52, now takes the helm of Burundi leadership as the country seeks to shake off the undoing of years-long ethnic-based civil war and economic ruin. He joined the Hutu militia after he ...

The opposing sides in the four-year-old civil war in Burundi raped, tortured, and killed thousands of civilians and looted and destroyed civilian property in 1997. The Tutsi-dominated armed forces ...