Describing himself as a 'Stalinist' Michel 65 founded a Belgian version of the National Front has spent decades running anti-western influence operations in Libya Central African Republic Chad Equatorial Guinea and Burundi where he worked briefly as an advisor to the late President Pierre Nkurunziza...

Inter-community trade has fallen 31% over the past five years Rwanda and Uganda on the one hand and Kenya and Tanzania on the other are locked in trade wars while Burundi and Rwanda are yet to repair relations since Burundi accused Kigali of organising a putsch against the late president Pierre Nkurunziza...

Evariste Ndayishimiye was sworn in as Burundi's president on 18 June 10 days after the sudden death of his predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza...

The drawdown was agreed by Amisom leaders last November but Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza and Somalia's President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' have been trying to stop it ever since...

Enemies' enemiesIn South Kivu the RNC is playing its part in regional national rivalries by fighting the enemies of Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza's regime who are located in Congo-K...

Following the 2009 investigation by the UN Mutoka was sidelined by Goetz and President Pierre Nkurunziza...

The Imbonerakure are being supported by Burundi's intelligence services to further President Pierre Nkurunziza's quest to hunt down Rwandan-backed Burundian rebels in the nearby Rusizi Plains local sources say...

Banyamulenge Tutsi militia in South Kivu who have historically been wary of being used as proxies by Kinshasa or Kigali are under pressure to link up with Rwandan-backed Burundian Résistance pour un État de Droit au Burundi (RED-Tabara) and Forces républicaines du Burundi (Forebu) militias to oppose President Pierre Nkurunziza...

Unrest in Burundi has increased massively since President Pierre Nkurunziza's decided to take a third unconstitutional term of office and a coup against him failed in May 2015 just before and his re-election as President the following July...