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Football : Burundi advances to secound round
Burundi's national football team Sunday in Bujumbura advanced to the second round of the qualifiers of the African Under-17 championship, despite losing 0-1 to...
Burundian army kills 11 rebels
The Burundian army Tuesday claimed it had killed 11 rebels of the Party for the Liberation of the Hutu People/National Liberation Front (PALIPEHUTU/FNL) during...
BADEA lends to Kenya, Mali, Burkina and Burundi
The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) Monday in Cairo, Egypt, signed four loan agreements with Burkina Faso, Burundi, Kenya and Mali,...
Rwanda : arrest warrants for presumed genocide perpetrators
Rwanda has issued international arrest warrants against Burundians presumed to have been involved in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic community of this...
East African Community considers a borderless market
East African traders would have a borderless regional trading system by 2010 to allow for free flow of goods, services and investments across the...
Terrorist attack leaves a Burundian soldier dead in Somalia
A soldier has died of his injuries following a truck bomb attack by an Islamic terrorist group against the base of the Burundian peacekeeping...
Stolen Japanese cars discovered in Burundi
An international search for stolen vehicles has resulted in the discovery of 15 such vehicles, nine of which were found in Burundi, the country's...
Fire arms seizure in Bujumbura
Burundian security forces made an arms seizure Friday in Bujumbura. Among the arms seized were; 34 fire arms including Kalachnikovs, 10 grenades, more than...
Cameroon: African Champions league match cancelled
A return match, in the African champions league play-offs, scheduled for next weekend between Vitalo (Burundi) and Cotton Sport of Garoua, has been postponed....
3 policemen killed in north-western Burundi
At least three Burundian policemen were killed and another seriously wounded Sunday night, in Bubanza, North Western Burundi, by rebels from the Party for...
Burundi’s main opposition party suspends participation in parliament
Burundi's main opposition party, the Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU), Thursday decided to suspend until further notice its participation in the Parliament to...
Two million infested with malaria in Burundi annually
Malaria affects between two million and 2.5 million people per year in Burundi, which makes it the first cause of mortality in the country,...