Burundi holds his key to the ARC throne as any good finish there will guarantee him a wheeling diadem. Prince Nyerere, who ...

Burundi and Rwanda are both part of a six-country regional trading bloc called the East African Community (EAC), with Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the recently-admitted South Sudan the other members.

Rwanda and Burundi were already inhabited then by a few pygmies and by many Hutu people, farmers who lived by their hoes. They were Bantu people, short, stocky, dark, with negroid features.

Burundi's internal affairs minister says the country is suspending diplomatic ties with Rwanda, closing their border and deporting Rwandan citizens.

The East African Community has been ambitious in creating a regional common market. This includes making it easy for people ...

Africa Burundi deports Rwandans, closes border, alleging nation backs 'terrorist' rebel group Rwanda suspected of backing RED-Tabara, a group that claimed responsibility for Dec. 22 attack that ...

This tiny landlocked nation in East Africa is the world's poorest country, whose inhabitants grapple with hunger and economic ...

In a hilltop village in Rwanda, residents watch intently as a small troupe of actors perform a play adapted from a best-selling French novel -- written far away but echoing a story that is painfully ...

Burundi’s interior ministry blamed the grenade attack on Friday that injured 38 people on RED-Tabara rebels and said the group was backed by Rwanda. The rebel group denied responsibility for the ...

Chilling parallels exist between Burundi and Rwanda, where 800,000 died in the 1994 genocide.

Rwanda and Burundi are both members of the East African Community bloc, whose trade ambitions have suffered in recent years amid sporadic flare-ups that undermine the free movement of people and ...