Burundi began Monday releasing a quarter of its jail population under a mass presidential pardon, but prisoners' rights groups voiced concern they were just making room for more political inmates. A ...

The vulnerability of the Burundi people "is perpetuated by the socio-economic situation but also by the rise in natural disasters," said Garry Conille, Burundi representative of the UN Development ...

Burundi's largest electricity substation, a 160 megavolts facility in Rubirizi, financed by the African Development Bank Group and the European Union, will increase the country's electricity-connected ...

The European Union, strife-stricken Burundi's biggest aid donor, today (15 February) warned the country could face "appropriate measures" if it does not remedy its human rights record. The European ...

For the past 10 years, the Government of Burundi has engaged in a decentralization process to strengthen social cohesion and empower local communities. Most of Burundi’s local administrations continue ...

A serious outbreak of malaria in Burundi has reached epidemic proportions, killing almost as many people as the Ebola crisis in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo. The outbreak in the tiny ...

Bujumbura — In Busoni, northern Burundi, the Mbarushimana clan is receiving a hard lesson in the limits of natural resources. Three sons, and other relatives, are trying to survive on land inherited ...

NAIROBI: One in three Burundians will need humanitarian assistance this year, a 20 percent increase on 2017 as conditions worsen in one of the world's poorest countries, the UN development body said ...