Claude says he is afraid he will soon be dead -- either from starvation or violence -- as he waits at a food tent in a camp ...

Asha, a mother-of-four, found herself once again donning rubber boots inside her living room – the recurring cost of residing ...

The Burundian government and the African Development Bank launched the Burundi component of the Burundi-Rwanda Integrated Development Project (BRIDEP) in Bujumbura on 20 May 2025. The project aims to ...

Burundi, one of the world's poorest nations, is struggling to emerge from a 12-year, ethnic-based civil war. The country's early history and role of the three main ethnic groups - the Twa ...

BUJUMBURA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people ...

Burundi Says Rwanda Has a Plan to Attack It, Rwanda Calls for Calm NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye said he had seen "credible intelligence" that Rwanda has a plan to ...

KAYANZA, Burundi (AP) — Farmers in a remote part of Burundi know to look for a truck parked by a highway when it is time to sell their avocados. They materialize from villages and form a crowd around ...

Burundi and the African Development Bank launch $152 million BRIDEP to boost agriculture and trade The project targets rural transformation through irrigation, digital platforms, and cross-border ...

The commercial capital, Bujumbura. Burundi is classified as one of the poorest nations in the world in terms of GDP per capita, according to the World Bank 1500s - Distinct Burundian kingdom emerges.

Burundi, where about 10% of the population has access to electricity, will see the expansion of its power-distribution grid from next year, boosted by $1.4 billion of funding from international ...

The sun is barely rising in rural Burundi when we begin our medical rounds in the pediatric ward. I am an American, doctoring in this central African nation, far away from my home in northern Ohio.

A landlocked country in East Africa, Burundi is a low-income economy, with 80% of the population employed in the agricultural sector. Located in the Great Lakes region, Burundi is surrounded by Rwanda ...