Burundians voted Thursday for a new parliament that was expected to cement the ruling party in power after key opposition figures were barred from running.

The ruling party in Burundi has won all 100 seats in a parliamentary election that the opposition says has "killed" democracy ...

Legislative and local elections in Burundi on June 5, 2025, took place in a context of severely restricted free speech and political ...

President Evariste Ndayishimiye’s CNDD-FDD party has secured 100% of the seats in the vote for the national legislative ...

Interim results from communal Councils and legislative elections showed that the ruling party CNDD- FDD took 99 percent of ...

Burundi decided to withdraw from the Hague-based international court to protest against the investigation of its leaders. Its withdrawal from the ICC took effect on 27 October, a year after it issued ...

President Ndayishimiye took over following the death of his predecessor, Pierre Nkurunziza, who had isolated the country with his brutal and chaotic rule since 2005. While Ndayishimiye was seen as ...

Burundi experienced decades of ethnic violence and civil war up to 2005. Under a peace agreement signed in 2000, seats in the parliament are split 60-40 between the two ethnic groups, Hutu and Tutsi.

Burundi is the most corrupt country in East Africa, according to a Transparency International (TI) survey. Burundi had taken over the top position from Kenya in the latest East African Bribery Index ...

FDD, won every seat in the country's parliamentary elections, the electoral commission said Wednesday. Opposition parties ...

International observers and civil society groups noted a generally calm polling environment, but the opposition denounced the ...