The official and witnesses said the incident happened after accusations made by members of the ruling party's powerful youth ...

Burundi is one of the countries, which are most vulnerable to climate change. Al Jazeera. Burundi faces droughts, floods, and mudslides, worsened by deforestation. Posted: April 1, ...

Three schoolgirls in Burundi have spent the weekend in jail and are facing five years in prison for drawing on the President’s face in their school books, Human Rights Watch told CNN.

In January 2023, Floriane Irangabiye, a presenter on the online radio station Igicaniro, was fined BIF one million (USD 338) and sentenced to ten years in prison for “undermining the integrity of the ...

Western Burundi faces flooding due to what experts say is abnormal rainfall in the region near Lake Tanganyika where 800,000 people live. Humanitarian agencies have in the past raised alarm over ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — A week of floods has displaced thousands of families in a part of western Burundi where a river separates the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official ...

Burundi faces "all sorts of shortages, galloping inflation of more than 40 percent and growing popular discontent," the analyst said. "I hope the party I voted for will win.

Since the start of the year, tens of thousands of people have fled across the border here from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), driven out by a surge in armed violence. They arrive in ...

Burundi faces "all sorts of shortages, galloping inflation of more than 40 percent and growing popular discontent," the analyst said. "I hope the party I voted for will win.

Analysis - Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country's overdependence on the use of biomass (firewood). The second is outdated agricultural practices ...

Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country’s overdependence on the use of biomass (firewood). The second is outdated agricultural practices that have ...