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Burundi
Population: 8.3 mn.
GDP: 1.4 bn.
Debt: 0.2 bn.
Overview:

President Pierre Nkurunziza's crackdown, which has driven opponents, including FNL leader Agathon Rwasa into exile, continues. Although the IMF has endorsed the government, others are critical about growing corruption.

Burundi Country Report



news from Burundi

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  • Vol 43 No 25
  •  20th December 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
  •  13th September 2002

Peace talk, but is it real?

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

  • Vol 43 No 6
  •  22nd March 2002

Alternating currents

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

  • Vol 42 No 21
  •  26th October 2001

Piecemeal

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

  • Vol 42 No 21
  •  26th October 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
  •  28th September 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.

  • Vol 42 No 17
  •  31st August 2001

A sort of peace

The Mandela peace deal is better than none but its far from final

  • Vol 42 No 5
  •  9th March 2001

Against Arusha

Rebel militias are stepping up the pressure as Burundi mediator Nelson Mandela drives the peace talks forward. Some 40,000 people have fled the fighting in northern Bujumbura since the 26 February summit of the Arusha peace process, when Mandela announced...

  • Vol 42 No 2
  •  26th January 2001

Laurent's legacy

Change in Congo-Kinshasa may now concentrate minds onthe Arusha accord

  • Vol 41 No 17
  •  1st September 2000

Under Kilimanjaro

This rushed peace accord with little political will behind it may worsen the conflict

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