Burundi News

Central African countries will open a branch of traditional language research in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, according to an official statement released here on Friday.

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The Director-General of the Arab Bank for Economic Deve lopment in Africa , Mr. Abdelaziz Khelef, was due in Bujumbura Wednesday to attend the Great Lakes S ummit being hosted by Burundi 4-5 Nov.

BUJUMBURA, 4 November 2009 - Civilians across Burundi have handed in thousands of guns, grenades and rounds of ammunition during a 10-day voluntary disarmament campaign.

Rape and defilement have been documented as the most common violations against women in the East Africa and Great Lakes Region, a scenario that women activists fear could retard development in the region.

The leader of Somalia's breakaway self-declared state of Somaliland yesterday called for war against the hardline Shebaab rebels as the region marked one year since deadly suicide attacks.

Burundi collected nearly 14,000 weapons last week in a nationwide campaign to disarm the civilian population and ensure elections next year will be peaceful, officials said.

Witnesses say the militants called for the men in the town in a meeting on Friday afternoon and told the hairdressers not cut a beard from men in Merca.

BUJUMBURA, 28 October 2009 - Following two reported cases of polio in Burundi's northwestern province of Cibitoke, the Health Ministry and UN World Health Organization have begun a three-day immunization campaign, targeting at least 1.5 million children under five, officials said.

Maintaining a competent military organization is a challenge for wealthy nations, even in times of relative peace.

Burundi and Uganda have beefed up security and are closely monitoring Somalis living in their countries after hardline rebel group al Shabaab threatened to attack the east African countries' capitals.

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Uganda and Burundi have condemned threats made by Somalia's Islamist Al Shabaab insurgents to strike Kampala and Bujumbura.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday warned Somali militias who have threatened attacks on Uganda's capital Kampala and Burundi's capital Bujumbura.

Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents said they will attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from those countries that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu.

Mortars fired by Islamic militants slammed into Somalia's airport as the president was boarding a plane Thursday, sparking battles that killed at least 24 people when return fire hit residential areas and a market, officials said.

The contribution of justice in the process of reconciliation in Africa was debated in the Seminar 'Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa' held in Rome, during the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops promoted by the 'Giuseppe Toniolo' Institute for International Law for Peace and the Catholic Action International Forum.

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A political manifesto allegedly written by former Congolese warlord Laurent Nkunda just days before he was arrested by the Rwandan Government surfaced for the first time last week.

Burundi, one of the world's poorest nations, is emerging from a 12-year, ethnic-based civil war.