Burundi's top court has sentenced a former president to life in prison for the 1993 murder of another president who had defeated him in elections, an attack that triggered a 10-year civil war in which ...

This instructive memoir by a senior Mauritanian diplomat examines the political situation in Burundi during the two years surrounding the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Dispatched as a special U ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Burundi’s attorney general has issued 17 international arrest warrants for former senior military and civilian officials suspected of involvement in the assassination of the ...

So far, television of the West has not caught the agony of Burundi as it has that of Somalia and Bosnia. If it had, the problem would be on the front burner in Washington, instead of on none. The ...

The little boy, dressed in the usual dingy shorts and oversized shirt that kids in rural Africa wear, stood by the side of the red-dirt road, before a small patch of brilliantly green banana trees and ...

When the United States takes an interest in major events, say, crises in Russia or Haiti, it’s usually simple to determine the national interest. But the task becomes much harder when the country is ...

Thousands of people have been massacred in fighting between Burundi’s majority Hutu tribe and minority Tutsis and many villages have been set on fire since last week’s coup, witnesses said Wednesday.