He denied the country is in flames following escalating ... Officials say the AU has representatives in Burundi monitoring the situation on the ground. The African Union Commission's deputy ...

Burundi is heading to the polls in a tightly controlled vote expected to favor the ruling party. The opposition has been blocked as the country faces deepening economic crisis. Voters in Burundi went ...

Burundi said it has the backing of other ... on the potential deployment of 5,000 troops to the crisis-hit country. Talks at the AU Peace and Security Council in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa ...

Bujumbura - The African Union (AU) will deploy 100 human ... Burundi as requested by the people of Burundi so that they can continue with building their country.” The delegation would provide ...

The African Union will not deploy peacekeepers to Burundi unless the government in Bujumbura agrees, a senior AU official has said ... conflict-hit east African country without the consent ...

Burundi has also refused to allow observers, including those of the AU and UN Human Rights Council, to operate freely in the country. Since January 2016, when the AU Assembly rejected the PSC’s ...

Johannesburg - African leaders meeting for the African Union (AU) summit here have implicitly rejected Burundi President ... despite two-term limits in the country’s constitution and in the ...

Addis Ababa - The African Union says it has written to Burundi's president urging him to consent to the deployment of a peacekeeping force to quell the country's escalating unrest. In statement AU ...

Burundi votes for a new parliament on Thursday but with little risk of an upset after the main opposition was effectively barred from running.

The African Union has warned that the political crisis in Burundi could have catastrophic consequences for the country and the surrounding region. The statement, by AU Commission chief Nkosazana ...

The ruling party in Burundi has won all 100 seats in a parliamentary election that the opposition says has "killed" democracy ...