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Peace in Burundi might mean South African National Defence Force (SANDF) peacekeepers can finally go home, but other African conflicts suggest that rest and recovery for the heavily overstretched and underfunded troops might be short-lived.
The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed Tanzania's decision to allow more time for some 36,000 Burundian refugees who have been living in the country since the 1990s to make their way back to their homeland.
Burundi has recently emerged from twelve years of devastating civil war. Its economy has been destroyed and hundreds and thousands of people have been killed. In this book, the voices of ordinary Burundians are heard for the first time.
In a section of the Mtabila refugee camp on the vast and lonely western frontier of Tanzania, Burundians have been ordered to pull down their huts and sign up for "voluntary" UN convoys to the border.
The Burundi government has launched a comprehensive programme to privatize its coffee sector, the country's biggest export and employer, according to a report.
The Tanzanian authorities must ensure that thousands of Burundian refugees who have been living in the Mbatila camp are not sent back to their country under coercion, as suggested by recent reports received from a number of refugees and organizations, Amnesty International said today.
The East African Community Secretariat has announce the official launch of the East African Community Customs Union in Rwanda and Burundi on July 6 The launch activities will be held simultaneously in the respective capitals of the new EAC Partner States; Kigali (Kigali Serena Hotel) and Bujumbura (Source du Nil Hotel). Implementation of the EAC Customs Union Protocol in the new Partner States ...
Burundi's water and electricity authority has announced bids for rehabilitation of five small hydroelectric projects totaling 19.6 MW and two electricity distribution networks.
THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is poised to withdraw from Burundi at the end of the month as it appears peace is holding in that country.
The East African Community (EAC) Directorate of Customs and Trade has confirmed the readiness of Rwanda and Burundi to join Customs Union that commences the on the 1st of July 2009.
Starways, a Kenyan private bus company operating in Rwanda is planning to open-up four more routes in the region by the end of the year, the company's spokesperson in Kigali said on Monday.
Egypt and Sudan have written a joint protest note to other Nile Basin countries saying that agreements that gave the downstream countries superior rights over the use of River Nile waters were still binding on all, despite the recent adoption of legislation opposed to the agreements made in the colonial era.
Differences over sharing of Nile waters may have deepened following the failure among the nine countries along the Nile to come to an agreement.
The Tanzanian and Ugandan governments should ensure that refugees living in camps due to close on June 30 and 31, 2009 are not forcibly returned to their home countries and are immediately given full information about their options, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch also urged both governments to avoid repeating Rwanda's unlawful forced return of up to 504 refugees to Burundi at ...
Rwanda registered their second victory at this year's East Africa Military Games after yesterday's thrilling 24-23 handball victory over Burundi at Amahoro stadium.
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