Maggy Barankitse is the founder of Maison Shalom, an orphanage and school that was created in Burundi in the wake of the Civil War there in the 1990s. Like in neighboring Rwanda, the conflict in Burundi involved acts of genocide...
South African President Jacob Zuma and four other heads of state from Ethiopia, Senegal, Gabon and Mauritania joined together in a high-level African Union delegation and spent February 25th and 26th in Burundi pressuring the current President, Pierre Nkurunziza, to...
Burundi is inching ever closer to disaster. The crisis began last year, when President Pierre Nkurinziza decided to run for a constitutionally dubious third term in office. That set off protests, a violent suppression of those protests, and a short...
Nine months after President Pierre Nkurunziza upended Burundi’s fragile post-conflict peace by announcing he would stand for a third term in office, all indications are the crisis is getting worse rather than better. New evidence of sexual assault by security...
Before she was the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power was a journalist who wrote about genocide and mass atrocities from the Balkans to Darfur. Her Pulitzer Prize winning book: ‘A Problem from Hell:’ America in the Age...
Yesterday, amid an ongoing political crisis and unrest, Burundians went to the polls to vote in the country’s contentious presidential election. While media reports that at least two people were killed the night before the polls opened, election day came...
A week ago, the first round of highly contested elections took place in Burundi. Initially slated for the end of May, legislative elections were delayed for about a month following the resignation and hasty departure of key staff of the...
President Nkurunziza tightens his grip on power, as protests recede.
Following weeks of unrest, a failed coup attempt and a president who just won’t quit, Burundi’s government spokesman announced yesterday that the parliamentary elections slated for June 5, and the June 26 presidential elections, were being delayed. The national election commission,...