Burundi

During the launch of the "10 days to sign" campaign, Amnesty International this year highlights the case of Germain Rukuki, a human rights activist in Burundi who was arrested in July 2017.

The final report of the UN Secretary-Normal on Burundi, voluntarily measured to attempt to keep dialogue with Gitega, has executed nothing, the federal government has simply rejected in a dated be aware verbal to the RFI essential proposal from Antonio Guterres on this report, which might be prolonged to the December 31, 2021, the presence of the workplace of his Particular Envoy in Burundi.…

Sentenced in absentia in his country Burundi to life imprisonment The murder of his predecessor Melchior Ndadaye in 1993 during a coup, former Burundian President Pierre Buyoya spoke this Friday 23. October in Bamako at a press conference. The current High Representative of the African Union for Mali and the Sahel, he rejects this condemnation and announces that he will lodge an appeal, especially in his country. as reported from Bamako, Serge Daniel Before the press, Pierre Buyoya, former President of Burundi and…

The verdict in Burundi over former President Pierre Buyoya to life in prison puts the African Union in an embarrassment. The latter is the high representative of the organization in Mali and the Sahel. There were no statements in Addis Ababa as relations remain strained between the AU and Burundi. Two years ago, the African…

Rwandan and Burundian international ministers met on the border between the 2 nations on Tuesday morning. Bilateral discussions aimed to normalize the connection between the 2 neighbors by daggers drawn since 2015. The dialogue due to this fact appears to renew after years of mutual accusations. as reported from Kigali,  For Albert Shingiro, Burundi's international minister, it's "the opening of a brand new chapter". "We're inclined to resolve any conflicts between us," added Vincent Biruta, his Rwandan counterpart.…

Burundi's Supreme Court sentenced former Burundian President Pierre Buyoya, along with 18 other relatives, to life in prison for the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye, which plunged the country into a decade of civil war that left more than 300,000 dead. Nearly 27 years ago, on that day, September 21, 1993, Melchior…

The community of Congolese Banyamulenge refugees, numbering in the thousands, has complained of having been the victim of a real hunt for ten days. The Interior Ministry and public security have launched a real campaign against those living in cities when they have to be in one of the five refugee camps in the country. The leaders of this community of Rwandophonic Congolese refugees fleeing the province…

Greater than 3,000 Burundian refugees from the Mahama camp in Rwanda have returned to their nation since August final 12 months. 8,000 others have signed up for an upcoming departure as a part of an settlement between the UNHCR and the 2 neighboring nations. That is the most important wave of return from Rwanda to Burundi for the reason that political disaster of 2015 that pushed tens of hundreds of…

In Burundi, international and local human rights organizations condemned the arrest and imprisonment, described as arbitrary, by a former opposition representative, Fabien Banciryanino, on 2 October. He was arrested without a warrant and then jailed in the Mpimba jail in Bujumbura a week ago, officially for "riots, slanderous condemnations and attacks on the state's internal and external security". However, according to one of his lawyers and a letter sent by the interested party to CNIDH, the independent national…

Last August, President Evariste Ndayishimiye opposed a rejection of Paul Kagame's outstretched hand, proposing to turn the page after five years of squabbling. And despite the recent meeting between military intelligence from the two countries and the return of more than a thousand Burundian refugees, a new incident took place in the border area.…