BUJUMBURA, Burundi – Burundi's ruling party is purging ethnic Tutsi army officers in a campaign of repression, a human rights group says, accusing the international community of inaction amid deadly ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi — As conflict in Burundi escalates along the same ethnic lines that fueled genocide in neighboring Rwanda, Burundi’s president on Wednesday warned the world to stay out, threatening ...

Now Tutsi radicals are trying to "cleanse" the government of the last vestiges of multiethnicity. Bujumbura has nearly been paralyzed by a week-long strike led by a group known as the Society of ...

Police in Burundi over the weekend released three students who had been arrested last week during tightened security at the University of Burundi, where Hutu students had been fleeing in fear of ...

UNITED NATIONS >> A global human rights umbrella organization is urging Africa, Europe and the United Nations to send a civilian protection force to Burundi to prevent a possible civil war and ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi — The Burundian army put down a coup attempt Wednesday by a group of junior army officers opposed to President Pierre Buyoya’s negotiations with Hutu rebels, the Defense Ministry ...

The enormity and horror of it all are exposed by what a visitor does not see in Bujumbura. Bujumbura, a languid, colorless, nondescript town on Lake Tanganyika, is the capital of Burundi, a central ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, March 3 -- -- The Hutu rebels took Bujumbura's northwestern suburbs a week ago, announcing their presence first by their custom of entering battle to Christian marching songs, then ...

PARIS — "It felt like an injustice to me,” said the rapper and novelist Gaël Faye, about having to leave civil-war-torn Burundi in 1995 to come live in France. Faye, who was 13 at the time, had to ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Burundi’s ruling party is purging ethnic Tutsi army officers in a campaign of repression, a human rights group says, accusing the international community of inaction amid deadly ...