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Burundi

April 2024

  • A man stands next to brown flowing floodwater covering a fallen hut, as people on the other side of the water search to retrieve belongings from rubble among damaged housing

    Kenya flood death toll rises as more torrential rain forecast

    Total deaths reach 76 and more than 130,000 displaced as weeks of flooding also affects east African neighbours

January 2024

  • Arianna at a safe house with 20 other transgender people on the outskirts of Kampala.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘If I go out, I’ll be a target’: fear stalks Uganda over brutal anti-gay laws

    Despite sharp international condemnation, the new legislation – its measures include the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ – has found support elsewhere in Africa

December 2023

  • Burundi's security guards on patrol on the back of a truck

    Attack by rebels in western Burundi leaves 20 dead

    Red-Tabara group claims responsibility for assault in Vugizo that killed 12 children, three women and five men

August 2023

  • The Burundi under-19 handball team.

    Croatian police looking for 10 handball players from Burundi missing from competition

    Players have not been heard from since leaving their accommodation last Wednesday

July 2023

  • Louise Raedler Waterhouse and King Siaosi Tupou V

    From Rita Ora to Daryl Maguire via Margaret Court: the curious links and unsung lives of Australia’s honorary consuls

    It’s generally a low-profile job, especially when you are representing San Marino. But occasionally honorary consuls burst into the spotlight

April 2023

  • A runner in sorts and singlet poses with his arms crossed

    A common condition
    ‘A precision approach to activism’: distance runners join fight against Africa’s air pollution

    Citizen scientists in Lagos, Cape Town and Accra are gathering air-quality data on runs to help curb a key cause of early death

October 2022

  • Neptune Frost.

    Neptune Frost review – exhilarating Afrofuturist musical battles exploitation

  • Beckah Amani: ‘Some of my earliest memories are of my mum and dad playing the guitar under the stars.’

    Beckah Amani captures the chaos: ‘Growing up right now, we’re stuck in this whirlwind’

January 2022

  • A resident continues to extract items from her home after it was flooded by last year's hurricanes Eta and Iota in the Saviñon Cruz neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. The devastation wrought by November's hurricanes and the economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic has added to the forces of poverty and gang violence that drive Hondurans to migrate. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

    World’s poorest bear brunt of climate crisis: 10 underreported emergencies

  • Voters in Mpanda, Burundi, on 18 September 1961

    New evidence of Belgian complicity in 1961 killing of Burundian PM

December 2021

  • A journalist, police officer and a soldier observe the damage from the fire.

    Dozens killed in fire at overcrowded Burundi prison

    Inmate says police refused to open doors amid blaze that left 38 dead and 69 seriously hurt

November 2021

  • Dzaleka refugee camp

    Return to the refugee camp: Malawi orders thousands back to ‘congested’ Dzaleka

    People who’ve integrated into society are expected to return to the country’s oldest refugee camp, as cost of living and anti-refugee sentiment rises

August 2020

  • Jean-Baptiste Alaize.

    Jean-Baptiste Alaize: 'I run to survive. That is my destiny'

    When the Paralympian was three he lost his mother, and his right leg in Burundi’s civil war. He reveals how he outran his trauma

June 2020

  • Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza (2nd L) arrives in a car for celebrations of the country’s 53rd Independence Anniversary at Prince Rwagasore Stadium in Bujumbura on July 1, 2015. Six people including a policeman were killed in gun battles on July 1 in the latest violence in Burundi, as it awaits results from elections boycotted by the opposition and condemned internationally. Elsewhere in the capital, military parades were held to mark the country’s independence day. AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARIMARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images

    Pierre Nkurunziza obituary

  • Pierre Nkurunziza pictured in 2018

    Burundi president dies of illness suspected to be coronavirus

May 2020

  • Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi’s ruling party, the CNDD-FDD, casts his ballot.

    Burundi ruling party candidate wins election amid rigging claims

    Evariste Ndayishimiye is declared winner with 69% of vote
  • Evariste Ndayishimiye at an election rally in Burundi

    Burundi to go to polls amid fears authorities playing down Covid-19

    Nation of 11 million has reported 27 cases but has only carried out about 520 tests
  • An election rally in Burundi on 27 April.

    Burundi expels WHO coronavirus team as election approaches

    Official says health minister has accused UN agency of ‘unacceptable interference’

March 2020

  • Founder and Executive Director of New Generation Burundi Dieudonné Nahimana is on of the candidates for the forthcoming Burundian Presidential elections

    'Not just where people kill each other’: the man hoping to transform Burundi

    With an election looming, Dieudonné Nahimana shares his vision for unity in a country scarred by ethnic violence

February 2020

  • Burundian worker digs in earth

    More than 6,000 bodies found in six mass grave sites in Burundi

    Discovery is largest since government launched nationwide excavation in January
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