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BURUNDI: Bujumbura seeks UN help in reconstruction efforts
IRIN
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Peace and governance; the boosting of the security and judicial sectors, human rights and disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration are some of the areas for which the Burundi government is seeking United Nations support upon the total withdrawal of UN peacekeepers from the country, government spokesman Ramadhan Karenga
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BURUNDI: Rains displace thousands, destroy crops and cemetery
IRIN
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Floods have killed nine people, displaced thousands others and destroyed a cemetery in Burundi's northwestern province of Bubanza, following a week of heavy rainfall that caused two rivers to burst their
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BURUNDI: Peace talks facilitator ends visits
IRIN
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The newly appointed facilitator of planned peace talks between the Burundian government and the country's remaining rebel group, Charles Nqakula, who is the South African minister for safety and security, ended a familiarisation visit to Burundi on
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Burundi: Free Expression Under Threat
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Prominent Peace Advocate Imprisoned
The former parliamentarian and activist Térence Nahimana should be released at once, Human Rights Watch said today, adding that his imprisonment raises questions about freedom of expression in
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urundi: Work With U.N. on Justice and Reconciliation
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Releases of Detainees Underline Need for Speedy Justice
Burundian authorities and United Nations experts, due to meet Monday, should ensure the speedy establishment of mechanisms to address grave violations of international law committed in political and ethnic conflicts in this central African nation, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Burundi: Donors Must Press for End to Continuing Abuses
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Torture and Killings Persist, While Progress on Justice for War Crimes Stalls
Donors beginning aid discussions with Burundi’s government on February 28 must press for an end to summary executions, torture and other human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued
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urundi: Rights Protections at Risk with New Government
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Torture and Summary Executions Documented in Ongoing War
The election of a new government in Burundi has not brought an end to human rights violations by all sides in the country’s brutal civil war, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Burundi: Observe International Guarantees for Asylum Seekers
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Burundi must honor the right of asylum seekers to a fair hearing of their claims for protection, Human Rights Watch said
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Burundi: Rwandans’ Asylum Claims Must Be Heard
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Thousands of Rwandans seeking asylum in Burundi, most of them women and children, must not be coerced to return home without having their asylum claims fairly
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U.N. Rights Body Must Fight to Restore Credibility
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
With a membership that includes governments responsible for crimes against humanity, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva next week must take dramatic steps to restore its sinking credibility, Human Rights Watch said today.
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D.R. Congo: End Arms Flows as Ethnic Tensions Rise
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
As rising ethnic tensions fuel the risk of renewed war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local government officials have reportedly delivered guns to civilians despite a United Nations embargo, Human Rights Watch said today. U.N. Security Council members arriving in the region on Saturday must speed the deployment
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Burundi: Hold Rebels Responsible for Attack
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
UN Wrongly Blamed for Failure to Aid Victims
A Burundian rebel movement was responsible for the August 13 slaughter of more than 150 civilians at Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi, and not the combined forces of Hutu and Mai-Mai fighters who have been blamed for the attack, Human Rights Watch said
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Burundi: Civilians Targeted in Bujumbura Rural
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Just outside the capital Bujumbura, civilians in Burundi have been killed, raped and injured in ongoing combat between government troops allied with former rebel combatants and the forces of a rebel group that remains outside the country’s peace process, Human Rights Watch said in a report released
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Country to Reform Before Joining EAC
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
As Rwanda and Burundi await for the final approval to join the East African Community (EAC), Burundian Members of Parliament who were in the country recently, have stressed that their country will emulate reforms carried out in Rwanda in a bid to compete in the
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Ssekandi Advises Burundi On Economy
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
THE Speaker of Parliament, Edward Ssekandi has given tips to the Burundi government on how to improve its
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FNL Rebels Intensify Attacks As Peace Talks Go On
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Despite ongoing peace talks between the government of Burundi and the Forces nationales de liberation (FNL), the country's remaining rebel group, FNL fighters have intensified attacks against civilians in the western province of Bubanza, killing one person and abducting four others in the latest
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Journalist Jailed for Publicly Criticising the Government
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Reporters Without Borders has requested that Burundi's intelligence service drop its legal proceedings against Burundi Press Agency (Agence burundaise de presse, ABP) journalist Aloys Kabura. Kabura has been detained in the central prison of Ngozi (northern Burundi) since 31 May 2006. The journalist, who recently wrote an article implicating the
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AU to Review Situation in Burundi
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The African Union (AU) Commission said on Wednesday that it would review the security situation in Burundi following the launch of peace talks between the government of Burundi and the Palipehutu-FNL, in
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Journalist Arrested for Criticizing Government
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of a journalist in Burundi for criticizing the government. Aloys Kabura, a correspondent for the state news agency Agence Burundaise de Presse, was arrested late Wednesday for speaking "defamatory words" in public against state institutions, international media quoted a local prosecutor as
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UN Welcomes Talks Between Government And Rebel Hold-Outs
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The United Nations mission in Burundi has pledged its support for talks between the Government and the last remaining major rebel group aimed at ending all fighting in the small Central African country after years of ethnic
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