Burundi: Alarm Over Burundi's Planned Constitution Changes

Bujumbura — Plans by Burundi's government to make radical amendments to the constitution have raised the political temperature in a country striving to overcome the effects of a civil war fought between 1993 and 2005.

Opposition parties accuse the government of unilaterally pushing for changes that would strengthen the executive and upset a delicate balance of power - between the country's Hutu majority and Tutsi minority - enshrined in the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi, which was signed in 2000. (The country's last rebel group only gave up the fight five years later.)

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