The violence in Burundi has rekindled memories of the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda NAIROBI, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The government of Burundi has said it will not attend peace talks scheduled ...

Tanzania’s open-door policy in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and Burundi’s civil conflict drew praise internationally ...

Burundi, a small, landlocked country in East Africa, has a similar ethnic make-up to its neighbor Rwanda, where Hutu extremists killed 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in a 1994 genocide.

Any move by Burundi's president to run for a third five-year term risks undermining a peace deal that has kept the African nation calm since civil war ended a decade ago and could stoke tensions ...

As was the case in Rwanda in 1994, today’s Burundian government feels besieged. Several of its members have been assassinated, and rebels have launched attacks into Burundi from foreign refugee ...