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Islam is a minority religion in Burundi where approximately 90 percent of the national population are followers of Christianity. Between 2–5 percent of the population identifies as Muslim, according to a 2010 estimate by the United States Department of State . [ 1 ]
French language map of Ruanda-Urundi, c. 1929–1938 Both Rwanda and Burundi were assigned to the German Empire in the Berlin Conference of 1884–85. [9] Germany did not rule over the kingdoms themselves, but instead chose to rule indirectly through their monarchies, [6] making them the westernmost part of the German East Africa colony.
Islam is a minority religion in Rwanda, practiced by 2% of the total population according to the 2022 census. [1] Virtually all Muslims in Rwanda are Sunni Muslim . Islam was first introduced into Rwanda by Muslim traders from the East Coast of Africa in the 20th century.
The Rwandan government on Thursday said Burundi had decided to shut its border with the East African nation, weeks after the Burundian president accused it of hosting a rebel group. Burundi's ...
Religion in Burundi is diverse, with Christianity being the dominant faith. Catholicism is the largest Christian denomination in the country. Burundi is a secular state and its constitution grants complete freedom of religious practice.
Although the ethnic make-up of Burundi is similar to that of Rwanda, Banyarwanda is a political neologism used solely in Rwanda since the 1990s in order to mitigate ethnic division within the country following the Rwandan Civil War and the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Burundi gained its independence in 1962, [4] but there are still post-colonial institutions present in a variety of traditional cultural and political centers. [5] Christianism is the main religion in the country, there are two main groups catholic and protestant, but there is also Islam, and different types of animism. [4]
The status of religious freedom in Africa varies from country to country. States can differ based on whether or not they guarantee equal treatment under law for followers of different religions, whether they establish a state religion (and the legal implications that this has for both practitioners and non-practitioners), the extent to which religious organizations operating within the country ...