The presence of the Rwandan head of government – a level of representation unheard of for several years – was accompanied by an optimistic speech and a letter from President Paul Kagame calling for “a ...

Wherever there are men there is always conflict. For several years now Burundi has suffered an onslaught of tragedy and violence. What is most tragic is not this conflict in itself, but the way in ...

Throughout Burundi’s history since independence, intermittent bouts of political turmoil have escalated tragically into genocide between the country’s Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. Many international ...

More than 100,000 people have fled Burundi since violence erupted in April. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya Rwanda and Burundi have historically been considered conjoined twins given their identical ethnic and ...

Expectations and optimism were high when Burundi’s National Independent Human Rights Commission, the CNIDH, was established in 2011. It showed promising signs of independence and had the potential to ...