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Bujumbura — Hundreds of Burundian families who recently returned home from Tanzania have been living in the open in western Bubanza province after they failed to trace their original homes. For about a month, some of the 300...
MAG (Mines Advisory Group) The illicit proliferation of conventional weapons prolongs conflicts, causes instability, undermines development, and is now well established as the leading threat to human security globally. Such ...
Bujumbura — Heavy rains have destroyed 214 homes, leaving about 1,070 people without shelter in Gihanga commune, western Bubanza province. Crops were also destroyed. "The worst hit is Village 5 where 104 houses were destroyed...
MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Reporting Period: 1-30 September 2009 SUMMARY: - Destruction of 41 weapons at the Weapons Destruction Workshop; - Collection of 67 weapons, 160 magazines, 631 ammunition and 45,184 SAA from ...
Thousands of people associated with a former rebel group in Burundi could threaten the country's new-found peace because they have been excluded from a demobilisation and army integration programme on the grounds they were not...
Bujumbura — Delays in the implementation of a 2006 peace accord in Burundi contributed to a deteriorating human rights situation there in 2008, according to a leading human rights organisation. "The misunderstanding between the...
Agathon Rwasa, leader of Burundi's notorious rebel Forces nationales de liberation (FNL), gave up his AK-47 and military uniforms on 18 April at a ceremony to mark the beginning of the demobilisation of thousands of combatants;...
