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FIFA has appointed the first woman to its executive committee on Tuesday, as world football's governing body bids to restore its image after a series of corruption scandals. Lydia Nsekera, president of the Burundi Football Association, has been co-opted onto the executive committee and will be formally installed at the FIFA Congress in Budapest on Friday, FIFA said in a
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Bujumbura - Villagers in northeast Burundi hacked to death a woman accused of witchcraft and five members of her family, including a baby and two other children, local authorities said on Sunday. On Saturday "a group of people attacked the home of an old woman called Marthe Kabatesi in the Bwambarangwe district," said Reverien Nzigamasabo, govenor of Kirundo province where
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An armed gang kidnapped, killed and dismembered an albino girl in what was Burundi's 18th such slaying in less than four years, officials said Sunday. People with albinism, a genetic condition that limits or prevents entirely the production of body pigment, have long been the target of discrimination in several African countries. Beliefs attributing albinos special powers exist in the
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Bujumbura — Tension is mounting on Burundi's political scene. Opposition parties continue to contest results of the 2010 presidential elections and recently condemned a series of laws seen as a government control tactic. Meanwhile, civil society just wants some democracy. Burundi currently has 44 political parties for a population estimated at 8.5 million. The political parties that withdrew from the
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Bujumbura — Today in Bujumbura, strikers intend to respond to the call made last Friday by trade union confederations and Burundi's civil society that urged the government to find solutions to the rising prices of basic commodities and the high cost of living. "It's better for someone to lose a day's wage, than to labour all his life," says Innocent
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Bujumbura — At least 2,000 people displaced by recent torrential rains in the area of Gatumba, on the outskirts of Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, need food and shelter, say officials. The rains destroyed at least 400 houses and there are fears of further damage in the worst-affected Kinyinya, Mushasha and Muyange areas amid ongoing rains. "They [the houses] are surrounded by
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Bujumbura - A Burundian anti-graft activist detained two weeks ago for criticising the justice minister over alleged corruption was freed on Tuesday. "I am happy to be freed from prison where I spent two weeks for no reason, because all that I said is true and has been spoken about by several senior officials in the country," said Faustin Ndikumana.
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The European Union delegation in Burundi has expressed "concern" over multiple violations of human rights and justice in the small central African country. A spate of extrajudicial killings is "intolerable", EU ambassador in Burundi Stephane de Loecker said late Friday after a six-hour meeting with government ministers and other European ambassadors. "We made very clear our view," Loecker said, adding
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Bujumbura - Burundi police have detained an anti-graft activist who criticised the country's justice minister over corruption in the judiciary, where candidates for jobs were expected to pay bribes. Faustin Ndikumana was arrested late on Tuesday and told reporters before being taken to Bujumbura's Mpimba prison that his arrest had come after a complaint by Justice Minister Pascal Barandaiye. In
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Bujumbura - Burundi denied on Saturday that it had asked for an exiled Burundian opposition leader to be arrested in Tanzania and extradited to face murder charges. "As far as I know the Burundian government did not demand that Alexis Sinduhije be arrested," government spokesperson Philippe Nzobonariba told AFP. Sinduhije's lawyer had told AFP that he was detained in Tanzania's
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Radio France Internationale's Swahili correspondent in Burundi goes on trial Thursday, accused of "terrorism" because he reported on a rebel movement that attacked the country from neighbouring Tanzania. Twenty-two other people are in the dock in Burundi's first terrorist trial. Hassan Ruvakuki, who is the Burundi correspondent for RFI's Kiswahili service, is among four people accused of giving the sign
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Bujumbura - The main defendant accused of taking part in the September massacre of at least 37 people in a Burundi bar on Tuesday accused senior police officers of responsibility for the bloodbath. The defendant, Innocent Ngendakuriyo, told judges in his first hearing before the Bujumbura High Court that he was not involved in the killings in Gatumba, near the
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The main defendant accused of taking part in the September massacre of at least 37 people in a Burundi bar Tuesday accused senior police officers of responsibility for the bloodbath. The defendant, Innocent Ngendakuriyo, told judges in his first hearing before the Bujumbura High Court that he was not involved in the killings in Gatumba, near the capital Bujumbura, and
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Bujumbura - Two men were arrested in Burundi on Monday over the murder of a Croatian nun and an Italian volunteer in an attack on a religious mission in the central African nation, a police official said. "The culprits of the double murder were arrested around 13:00 (11:00 GMT), they are aged 20 and 24 years and we are sure
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Bujumbura - Gunmen killed a Croatian nun and an Italian doctor who were working in a psychiatric clinic in northern Burundi, the head of the clinic said on Monday. Although the landlocked central African nation has been plagued by rampant insecurity this year, the killings on Sunday night in the northern district of Kiremba, is the first targeting foreign aid
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Bujumbura - Government-backed death squads have killed more than 300 members of Burundi's former rebel group and opposition supporters in covert operations over the past five months, a rights group said on Tuesday. The group said the central African country's regime and its proxies have waged a systematic campaign of extra judicial killings against the former rebels, who went back
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Bujumbura - Burundian troops killed 18 gunmen in fierce clashes, a government official said on Tuesday, stoking fears that a new rebellion may erupt in the central African nation. The coffee-producing country has enjoyed relative peace since the Hutu rebel group, Forces for National Liberation, laid down its weapons and joined the government in 2009 after almost two decades of
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Defence lawyers for the 21 suspects charged in a September gun raid near Burundi's capital that killed 39 said Thursday that police violated procedure while investigating the case. Following the defence's charges of widespread police misconduct the case was adjourned until December 1, the head of the court, Jean-Claude Ntibandetse, said. Defence lawyers said they have not yet been given
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Bujumbura - Burundi's interior minister has accused the country's main private radio of inciting the population to disobedience and hatred, and ordered it to submit bank details and records. Edouard Nduwimana said that Radio Publique Africaine (RPA) was "discrediting institutions, belittling the authority of the judiciary and inciting people to hatred and disobedience", in a letter sent to the radio
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BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Egide Hatungimana was one of 51 Burundian soldiers killed in a firefight with al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia last week, his brother says. But the body has not been delivered to his family, which only found out about the death in a call from a fellow soldier. Intensified fighting in Somalia has underscored that tiny Burundi, one
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Fighting Thursday evening in Somalia left six Burundians dead according to the army and more than 70 according to Shebab rebels who displayed dozens of bodies to witnesses. Burundi, a tiny central African country struggling to emerge from more than a decade of civil war, is paying the price for its military intervention in Somalia as part of the African
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Nairobi - Burundi is East Africa's most corrupt country for the second year in a row, with the region's police, revenue authorities and the judiciary rated as the worst offenders, a Transparency International (TI) survey showed on Friday. Rwanda was ranked least corrupt in the five-member East African Community trade bloc, said the TI survey, released on Thursday. Burundi had
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Tensions between the Burundi government and the local press are bound to increase as several media this week defied an order not to investigate or discuss a recent massacre.
While officials say the measure is "temporary" and necessary to safeguard national unity and the course of justice, independent journalists are asserting their right to publish information
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The office of the United Nation's human rights chief expressed deep concern Friday over violence in Burundi, after a recent bar shooting left 39 dead in one of the country's worst attacks in months.
"We are concerned about the increasing levels of violence in Burundi," spokeswoman of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Five radio stations and a private television channel in Burundi on Thursday defied a government ban and discussed a bar shooting that left 39 dead in one of the country's worst attacks in months.
Information Minister Concilie Nibigira meanwhile said it would investigate the breach, saying the government's "decision must be respected."
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