Burundi in a sentence

Nkurunziza, a devout evangelical who believed he was chosen by God to lead Burundi, leaves a “dark and sad legacy”, Carina Tertsakian of the Burundi Human Rights Initiative told AFP.

Prior to the donation, IOM Burundi trained 66 officials from the department of immigration, border police, local authorities, civil protection as well as health and customs from both Burundi and Tanzania, on HBM best practices.

But as the Burundi troops are poorly equipped, it was then decided for operational reasons that the first phase of departures should be just the Burundi contingent, the source said.

Burundi, 98 places below Cameroon in the world rankings and qualifiers only once for the Cup of Nations, were the superior side in the opening half only to be repeatedly foiled by Onana.

Burundi’s reform program aims to support economic recovery from shocks, restore external sustainability, and strengthen debt sustainability, while creating fiscal space for accelerated and inclusive growth.

Burundi, the current Chair of the East African Community, has deployed the first batch of its troops to Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Despite her college education and the career she built in Burundi, Ndayininahaze struggled to find work here at first.

Habyarimana, a Hutu, and fellow ethnic Hutu President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, were both on April 6, 1994, as a result of their plane en route to peace negotiations being shot down.

Participating countries include, Algeria, Angola, Nigeria, Benin, Morocco, Ethiopia, Botswana, Burundi and Uganda.

Reports show plans are afoot to include Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the East African Community’s One Network Area, to increase the programme’s scope.

The DRC shares a with five east African countries: Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

The new countries include Burundi, Eswatini, Guinea Bissau, Lesotho, Madagascar, Rwanda, Senegal and Zimbabwe.

The opaque circumstances surrounding Bunyoni's arrest are symptomatic of how political cases are often handled in Burundi.

This is in addition to thousands of soldiers – including from Kenya, Uganda, and Burundi – in the East African peacekeeping force.

Under the terms of the MoU, the coalition will construct a regional oil and gas pipeline network, consisting of three multinational pipeline systems, including the Central Southern Pipeline System connecting Angola with the DRC, Rwanda and Burundi.

Burundi and Rwanda both reported the virus for the first time.

Enock Twagirayesu was seeking sanctuary when he and his family fled violence in Burundi, and they found it in Uganda, the small nation that has absorbed thousands of refugees from unsettled neighbors.

For all the focus on their stunning journey to get to this stage of the tournament — including playing games on outdoor courts some of which had to be halted because of rain — Dynamo, from Burundi, showed plenty of savvy.

He said the current rainy season in the Greater Lakes region indicates potential increase in volumes of water in rivers and lakes in Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and DRC.

In the second game, home team Cape Town Tigers (SA) will take on first-time BAL participant Dynamo Basketball Club (Burundi) at 7pm (CAT).