BURUNDI: No peace without prosperity - analysts
BUJUMBURA, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Poverty, selfish political interests and inadequate economic development are the underlying causes of the political crisis gripping Burundi, according to political analysts.
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GREAT LAKES: Trying not to repeat history
JOHANNESBURG, 7 November 2008 (IRIN) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is on the brink of slipping back into the kind of devastating international war that raged from 1998 to 2003, according to one of the architects of the Great Lakes peace accords.
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BURUNDI: One word blocking peace process
BUJUMBURA, 7 November 2008 (IRIN) - An attempt by regional mediators to revive the peace process between the government and the rebel Forces nationales de libération hit a snag on 6 November after the rebels rejected a name-change proposal.
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BURUNDI: State cracks down on opposition
NAIROBI, 5 November 2008 (IRIN) - The arrest and detention of Burundian journalist and opposition leader Alexis Sinduhije and a stalemate in the peace process between the ruling party and the rebel Forces nationales de libération (FNL) signal a possible return to instability, rights activists have warned.
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BURUNDI: Heavy rains leave families homeless and in need of aid
BUJUMBURA, 14 October 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of families are without assistance in the northwestern province of Cibitoke after heavy rains damaged houses and crops, officials said.
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BURUNDI: Fighting for land
BUJUMBURA, 6 October 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of Burundians have returned home after years of refugee life in Tanzania, but finding shelter and enough land to farm remains a challenge.
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BURUNDI: Learning to live together in one village
BUJUMBURA, 26 September 2008 (IRIN) - Years ago, Mammert Buregeya, a 54-year-old displaced Burundian Tutsi, would probably have refused to live in Muriza “peace village” because that would bring him close to Hutu returnees.
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BURUNDI: Denise Nzohabonayo: "We are here because we have no land to go to"
BUJUMBURA, 23 September 2008 (IRIN) - Denise Nzohabonayo, a mother of four, was repatriated from Nduta refugee camp in Tanzania in July 2008 to the Nyabitare transit site near Ruyigi in eastern Burundi. After a month, stranded and with no home to return to, Nzohabonayo left Nyabitare for Muriza Butaganzwa commune, also in Ruyigi, in the hope that she would finally get some permanent shelter for her family. Being a landless returnee is not easy, as Nzohabonayo told IRIN.
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BURUNDI: Prisoner release to help peace process
BUJUMBURA, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - The release of detainees suspected to be members of the Palipehutu-Forces for National Liberation (FNL), Burundi's last rebel group, would remove a major impediment to the ceasefire between the group and the government, sources said.
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BURUNDI: FAO predicts serious food shortages
BUJUMBURA, 27 August 2008 (IRIN) - Parts of eastern and southern Burundi are threatened with acute food shortages following low agricultural yields compounded by an influx of returning refugees, an official of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has said.
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