Vol 55 No 15 | BURUNDI Peace at risk 17th July 2014 A climate of rising fear and uncertainty – never far from the surface in Burundi – is causing concern at home and abroad The government is clamping down on elements within its former coalition partner, the mainly Tutsi Union pour le progrès national (Uprona) because of their opposition to Pres...
Vol 55 No 8 | BURUNDICONGO-KINSHASA Terms of abuse 11th April 2014 The President's bid to change the constitution to allow him to stand for a third term has failed The Kinshasa press loudly celebrated the failure of President Pierre Nkurunziza to amend the Burundian constitution at the end of March, a move intended to permit him a third term ...
Vol 55 No 7 | BURUNDI Taxing troubles 4th April 2014 Tax reforms – which almost doubled state revenues over the last three years – are at risk from Bujumbura's elite and disorganised aid groups What is going wrong with Burundi's impressive tax reforms? Insiders say that corrupt politicians and business people have been fighting back, trying to get exemptions and write-off...
Vol 55 No 4 | BURUNDI Nkurunziza nobbles opposition 21st February 2014 The appointment of a new Vice-President failed to relieve the political crisis and the President is now trying to manipulate opposition leaders Burundi is facing its worst political crisis since the end of the civil war in 2000. When President Pierre Nkurunziza dismissed the First Vice-President, Bernard Busokoza, on 1 Feb...
Vol 53 No 19 | BURUNDI Aid threatened, conflict up 21st September 2012 Rebel forces have stepped up attacks on government positions ahead of a critical aid conference in Geneva The United Nations officially classes Burundi as a ‘post-conflict nation’ but chronic low-level violence persists. At the beginning of September, a dissident offshoot of the main o...
Vol 53 No 10 | BURUNDI Killing on the quiet 11th May 2012 The Interior Minister, Edouard Nduwimana, ordered Human Rights Watch to cancel a news conference in Bujumbura on 2 May at which the campaigning organisation had planned to release ...
Vol 53 No 3 | BURUNDI Storm over opposition man 3rd February 2012 Tanzania arrested a Burundian seen by many as a man of peace but UN experts say he supports armed rebellion Tanzania released the Burundian opposition leader Alexis Sinduhije on 24 January in what is widely seen as a serious diplomatic and political setback for the government of Presiden...
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...
