This is in addition to the 240 000 Burundians who have fled the country and now live as refugees in neighbouring countries. Next week’s AU summit should be historic, as heads of state vote on the ...

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

Interim results from communal Councils and legislative elections showed that the ruling party CNDD- FDD took 99 percent of ...

An AU peace mission followed by a UN mission replaced ... He said, “My demobilisation officially means the end of the war in Burundi; it is a sign that the country’s peace process is progressing.” On ...

Legislative and local elections in Burundi on June 5, 2025, took place in a context of severely restricted free speech and ...

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

who had isolated the country with his brutal and chaotic rule since 2005. While Ndayishimiye has been seen as relatively less authoritarian, Burundi's human rights record remains poor, with ...

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 ...

The explanations provided by the Trump administration for why each country is on the list contain significant contradictions, ...