Kagame is Rwanda’s one and only, says Ambassador
Last week in Burundi, a rebel force assassinated two of President Pierre Nkurunziza's top army officers and tossed grenades at an army hospital, injuring four. In neighboring Rwanda…
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BURUNDI: US SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE HEARS TESTIMONY
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, told the Senators that she had read the UNHCR reports on Rwandan government conscription of Burundian refugees for…
RWANDA CONSCRIPTS BURUNDIAN REFUGEES INTO NEW “REBEL ARMY,” AN INTERVIEW WITH JEFF DRUMTRA
Rwanda's Mahama Refugee Camp, near the Rwandan Burundian borderWestern press and officials now warn that the Rwandan massacres of 1994 are close to a replay in Rwanda’s neighbor…
OBAMA SINGLES OUT BURUNDI, AMIDST AFRICAN PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION STRUGGLES
US President Barack Obama and Burundian President Pierre NkurunzizaPresidential succession struggles continue in many nations on the African continent, including the vastly resource rich Democratic Republic of Congo…
RWANDA’S KAGAME TAKES ADVANTAGE OF UNREST IN BURUNDI
Burundian Foreign Minister Alain Nyamitwe has accused neighboring Rwanda of training rebels to destabilize Burundi with cross border attacks. Rwandan President Paul Kagame responded that the Burundian President…
Burundi’s tense border with Rwanda
Burundian Foreign Minister Alain NyamitweIncumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza has been declared the winner of Burundi’s presidential election, which the Burundian opposition boycotted. Despite the boycott, other candidates’ names…
US STILL DEMANDING THAT BURUNDI’S NKURUNZIZA STAND DOWN
UN human rights investigators, in a press release from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, have asked the UN Security Council to take urgent…
BREAKING THE WESTERN CONSENSUS ON BURUNDI
The U.S., the E.U. and Western media continue to castigate Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza for seeking a third term in office, despite violent street protest and a failed…
Authoritarian African leaders with a thin veneer of democratic legitimacy
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is seeking a third five-year term in office, despite violent street protest, and a failed coup détat. Burundi's Parliament elected Nkurunziza in 2005, and…
Nkurunziza Survives In Burundi But Winds Of Change Reach Central Africa
President Nkurunziza -- challenges remain The Burundi conflict escalated on May 13 with these words by Maj. Gen. Godefroid Niyombare on May 13th, in Bujumbura, the capital of…