Burundi

Burundi

Population: 8.3 million
GDP: $1400 million
Debt: $24.8% of GDP
Overview:

Oppositionists fear intimidation and fraud as the authoritarian President Pierre Nkurunziza and the ruling Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) plan for total victory in the elections in June and August. More violence will hold back the already battered economy.

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  • Vol 45 No 2
  • 23/01/2004

Cart before horse

An offer of aid may tempt the last rebel movement in from the cold

  • Vol 44 No 25
  • 19/12/2003

Risky dealings

Military reform and a new national army are key to the South African-led peace efforts (AC Vol 44 No 16). They remain on a knife-edge. Since the 16 November ceasefire, brokered by SA Deputy President Jacob Zuma and signed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, there...

  • Vol 44 No 16
  • 08/08/2003

Zuma's other hotspot

Two rebel factions hold the SA-backed peace process to ransom

  • Vol 44 No 9
  • 02/05/2003

Buyoya's boys

In line with the Arusha accord, a Hutu president is taking over from Pierre Buyoya

  • Vol 43 No 25
  • 20/12/2002

Two helpings of peace

Peace deals for both Congo-Kinshasa and Burundi, brokered by South Africa, will be tested early in 2003. The Congo deal, signed in Pretoria on 17 December, proposes a government of national unity, national assembly and senate, with all factions fighting s...

  • Vol 43 No 18
  • 13/09/2002

Peace talk, but is it real?

The main warring factions will meet, all of them split and militant

  • Vol 43 No 6
  • 22/03/2002

Alternating currents

The government is transitional but the opposition fears its power is permanent

  • Vol 42 No 21
  • 26/10/2001

Piecemeal

Nelson Mandela's plan annoys almost eveyone but there's no alternative in sight

  • Vol 42 No 21
  • 26/10/2001

Walk out

The Kinshasa government's abandonment of the Inter-Congolese dialogue on 19 October raises new doubts about its commitment to the Lusaka peace accord. Foreign Minister Léonard She Okitundu and Justice Minister Mwenze Kongolo walked out of the talks...

  • Vol 42 No 19
  • 28/09/2001

Negating the negatives

There is growing concern in Kigali and Bujumbura about the consequences of efforts by Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila to expel the 'negative forces', the hardline militias involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

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