PODCAST: The incredible story of Maggy Barankitse, who saved thousands of children in the wake of a genocide Mark Leon Goldberg March 19, 2018Maggy 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 pitting ethnic groups ag...
African Union Diplomacy Fails to Take off in Burundi. Literally and Metaphorically Belinda O'Donnell February 29, 2016South 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 Nkurunzi...
Burundi is in a Tailspin Mark Leon Goldberg February 18, 2016Burundi 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 lived ...
Could Trouble in Burundi Take Down the Whole Region? Kimberly Curtis January 15, 2016Nine 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 ...
Burundi is on the Verge of Genocide and There’s Not Much That Can Stop It Mark Leon Goldberg November 10, 2015Before 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 of Genocide is the most ...
Another Bad Election in Burundi Penelope Chester July 22, 2015Yesterday, 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 and w...
Burundi’s Bad Elections Penelope Chester July 6, 2015A 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 electoral commission. T...
Burundi: New Election Dates, But Crisis Remains Unresolved Penelope Chester June 12, 2015President Nkurunziza tightens his grip on power, as protests recede.
The Protests Have Died Down, But Burundi is Still a Political Mess Penelope Chester June 4, 2015Following 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 nationa...
