... L'objectif est bien de rétablir la paix [au Mali] qui ne sera effective que lors de la reconquête totale de l'intégrité du territoire national: cela demandera du temps d'autant que, pour l'heure, se sont essentiellement les militaires français qui sont en première ligne, avec une armée malienne affaiblie et dont la chaîne de commandement demeure floue...
Fourteen bodies, some of them mutilated with machetes, have been discovered in a river west of Burundi's capital.
At least one of the victims - whose identities are not yet known - was decapitated...
As pro-government troops continue their push to oust Islamist insurgents from southern and central Somalia, Uganda and Burundi have pledged additional troops to reinforce the African Union peacekeeping mission...
Landless returnees are the most vulnerable and difficult to reintegrate, according to a After living abroad as refugees for years – in some cases decades – many of the half-million people who have returned to Burundi since 2002 are having to cope with a severe shortage of one of the tiny country’s most precious commodities: land...
World Bank's Vice-President for Africa Region Obiageli Ezekwesili stressed here on Friday that lack of knowledge and capacities is a hinderance to Burundi's economy recovery...
Burundi's already depleted parliamentary opposition on Friday boycotted the election of the country's ombudsman, arguing that the ruling party imposed its candidate...
... The three-month-long electoral marathon had been seen as an opportunity for Burundi to prove its democratic credentials and seal the end of a civil war that has killed at least 300,000 people dead since 1993.
"There is no doubt, the people we saw are not simple thugs, they are real fighters, even if I can't tell you what group they belong to," ...
... They forgot that leaders across the region have the same attitude to democratic elections; that across the region elections are rigged and the results of the elections known before the populace even goes to the polls. The EAC has chosen to support the perpetrators of abuse and not the victims...
... Emerging from the meeting [with Kagame] into the darkened streets of Kigali, I knew there would be no equal justice or real democracy as long as Kagame held power...
A Burundian court opened the trial Friday of a journalist accused of treason for charging that the country's security forces were incapable of deterring an attack by Somali insurgents...
Burundi police arrested a journalist for alleged "treason" Saturday over an article questioning whether the security forces could deal with an attack like one that hit Uganda a week ago...
Attackers in Burundi chopped off the limbs of a 5-year-old albino boy and pulled out his mother's eye, killing them over the belief that their body parts would bring wealth and success...
Two Burundian soldiers went on a shooting spree Saturday, killing a colleague and wounding a civilian in the latest in a string of incidents involving the army...
BURUNDI HOLDS A CRUCIAL PRESIDENTIAL election this June, and one thing is clear: It is up to member states of the East African Community to ensure that it is free, fair and peaceful...
