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Over the years, Burundi has always had the problem of corruption at all times, particularly before colonial times, in the colonial period and even in the contemporary times. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The country is endowed with many resources and a good geographical location that has attracted both trade and commerce, and at the same time encouraged ...
22 August – Burundi reports 171 new mpox cases, raising the total case count in the country to 572 cases. [ 2 ] 22 August – President Evariste Ndayishimiye issues pardons to 5,442 inmates, equivalent to 41% of the country's prison population, as part of efforts to ease overcrowding in jails.
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Burundi. 25 January – Kirundi becomes an official language. [2] 2 April – Fifteen people are killed after two coal pits are flooded in Cibitoke. [3] 22 December – Twenty people are killed, mostly civilians, and nine others are injured in an attack by the RED-Tabara rebel group in Vugizo, Makamba. [4]
[16] [17] [18] Burundi, which has accused Rwanda of orchestrating a 2015 coup attempt, deployed troops to assist the DRC against the M23 offensive. [ 8 ] The MONUSCO peacekeeping mission has maintained that it is not involved in the conflict apart from its role in defending the region from militants, [ 19 ] but has been accused by Rwanda of ...
Burundi is governed as a presidential representative democratic republic, with an estimated population of 10,557,259 in 2012. [2] The country has experienced a long history of social unrest and ethnic tension between the Hutu majority and Tutsi minority, with successive civil wars jeopardizing national development since Burundi's decolonization as a Belgian territory in 1962.
Overcrowding is a major problem in Burundi prisons where, according to October figures, 13,100 inmates live in facilities designed to accommodate no more than 4,100 people. [2] In June, over 5000 inmates received presidential pardons in an attempt to empty the country's overcrowded jails.
The commander of the militants later stated that they infiltrated Burundi from the DRC's South Kivu province through Lake Tanganyika. [5] The eleven hostages were summarily executed, and then clashes broke out between the militants and the Burundian Army in the city. [3] Five militants were killed in the battle, and eventually retreated. [3]
African Issues. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35171-5. International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi: Final Report (S/1996/682), New York: United Nations International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi, 1996; Lemarchand, René (1996). Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-56623-1