Burundi News

Two people were killed when a bus carrying 30 passengers was ambushed by armed men believed to be former rebels near Burundi's capital Bujumbura, officials said on sunday.

NAIROBI - As a transgender man living as a woman, Barry has been repeatedly raped and beaten, his parents have been murdered and his children poisoned.

In an essay published in the Washington Post , former State Department official and Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter evokes the humanitarian disaster of Rwanda to push for U.S. intervention in Syria in the wake of the use of chemical weapons by the regime.

Burundi may not be the go-to capital of East Africa, but it is cheap and cheerful, and tourists are starting to cotton on.

Reporters Without Borders wrote an open letter to President Pierre Nkurunziza today voicing concern about freedom of information in Burundi and asking him not to promulgate a media law that has been passed by the country's parliament.

There are encouraging signs that the new push for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo can succeed, Mary Robinson said today in her first briefing to the Security Council since taking her post as United Nations Envoy for Africa's Great Lakes Region.

Burundi's journalists are bracing for tough times after parliament passed a restrictive draft media law that rights groups fear is designed to silence critical voices ahead of a general election in two years.

Mary Robinson, Special Envoy for Africa's Great Lakes Region, today urged leaders to keep working towards the success of the new eastern Democratic Republic of Congo peace plan, particularly amid what she sensed were mounting pressure and rhetoric in the country.

Burundi's government took unusually swift action last week in response to the police shooting of a radio reporter, after the journalist sought information at a roadblock in the capital Bujumbura where market vendors were allegedly being "taxed" for passage.

"I am seeing a political will and an urgency for peace that has to be maintained," Mrs.

Monday afternoon, the bank honored Sandra Fugate as its "Hometown Hero" for her work helping Burundi refugees assimilate in America.

Presidents Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya with their host, President Jakaya Kikwete, when observing a minute's silence in memory of former Ugandan East African Cooperation minister Eriya Kategaya at the start of the 10th East African Community Heads of State Summit in Arusha yesterday.

With elections looming instances of party propaganda being used in public has begun, often through a visible military presence in urban and rural residential areas.

Tuhabonye will speak at 6:30 p.m. today at Quinn Hall in room 212 as part of Genocide Awareness Month.

A Service Yezu Mwiza nurse hands medication to an HIV-AIDS patient, who is also suffering from malaria, at her home in Gatumba, outside Bujumbura, April 19, 2013.

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the passage in the Senate of highly restrictive amendments to Burundi's Press Law and calls on President Pierre Nkurunziza to reject the bill when it comes to him for confirmation.

Posted: 22 April 2013 Deadline: 28 April 2013 Job type: Contract Salary: TBD Location: Burundi Organisation: International Rescue Committee -USA The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives.

The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of traveling to Burundi.

Nineteen years ago on Sunday, the then-7-year-old Rukundo huddled with other Tutsi children and women in a church they hoped would be a refuge against armed Hutu militia.

The revival of this line is important as it now opens an alternative on the northern road corridor connecting vital trade routes strategically with South Sudan which is now becoming a major target for business transactions in the region.