Vol 5 (AAC) No 12 | BURUNDI Pierre Nkurunziza 2nd October 2012 President, Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza was in India 17-19 September to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee. He left with a US$80 million credit line for Kabu-1...
Vol 52 No 22 | BURUNDI Political violence worsens 4th November 2011 A hardline faction in the government and the bitter disappointment of the former rebels threaten the country’s hard-won peace The 26 October arrest of opposition politician William Munyembabazi by the powerful security service, the Service national de renseignement (SNR), has deepened the mistrust in Buju...
Vol 52 No 11 | BURUNDI All the way down 27th May 2011 Burundi has a few things in common with Rwanda. One is United States’ gratitude for its soldiers’ work in peacekeeping: Rwandans serve in Darfur, Sudan, and Burundians in the Afric...
Vol 52 No 3 | BURUNDI Bad omens 4th February 2011 The clean sweep by President Pierre Nkurunziza and his Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie-Forces pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD-FDD) at the 2010 elections has failed to dispel fears that violence will increase further. The opposition claims there was massive fraud behind the ruling party’s triumph and since May, dozens of murders and over 100 grenade attacks have taken place (AC Vol 51 No 13).
Vol 51 No 13 | BURUNDI Single party rules again 25th June 2010 Democracy has not been established despite international encouragement and the presidential election is a one-horse race The one-party state is back. President Pierre Nkurunziza will be the only candidate in the 28 June presidential elections. The opposition’s right to hold meetings has been suspende...
Vol 51 No 7 | BURUNDI A united opposition protest 2nd April 2010 The President fears he may not be re-elected in June; his opponents fear they may be eliminated Twelve worried opposition parties got together on 24 March to issue a joint communiqué denouncing a 'macabre plan' by President Pierre Nkurunziza's government, in the lead-u...
Vol 50 No 18 | BURUNDI Nkurunziza's formula for victory 11th September 2009 Election rules seemed to have been agreed but the President wants new ones to make sure he wins With a year to go before presidential, parliamentary and local elections, President Pierre Nkurunziza is trying to ensure that he and his party win. Diplomats are worried as the Na...
Vol 50 No 18 | BURUNDI The vote and the money 11th September 2009 The good news for Burundi is that 80% of the cost of next year's elections - US$45 million, about 5% of the budget - will be paid by foreign donors. The bad news for President Pier...
Vol 49 No 10 | BURUNDI Peace deal in shreds 9th May 2008 The rebel attacks on Bujumbura last month threaten to unravel the regime and the tottering economy The flurry of summitry in response to a series of mortar attacks on Bujumbura by the Hutu rebels of the Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL) in late April has yielded a pos...
Vol 48 No 16 | BURUNDI Going wrong again 3rd August 2007 The rebel Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL) were supposed to negotiate a cease-fire with the government. On 21 July their chief, Jean-Berchmans Ndayishimiye, walked out, follow...
