"burundi" is a correct and usable English word.
It is a noun referring to either the East African country or the language spoken in that country. Example sentence: The Burundi flag is made up of three horizontal stripes of red, green, and white.
Some of the 90,000 people who have fled Burundi over the last month – since President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would stand for a third term, prompting protests and a short-lived attempted coup – said they would not return this time, having already fled the country during the civil conflict.
Burundi is one of Africa's poorest countries, ranking 180 out of 187 states in the 2014 UN human development index and it relies on foreign aid for about half of its national budget.
It was empathy that turned him into a politician when, in his gap year, he was manager of Mtabila refugee camp, overseeing 120,000 Burundi refugees.
But last week the Tanzania president, Jakaya Kikwete, said the "slow progress" towards the EAC's common market was "discouraging" to citizens of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi, which make up the bloc.
Revolving door alternations between civilian and military rule continued in countries ranging from Nigeria to Burundi, Chad to Congo.
However on 30 September the Tanzanian government sent a delegation to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva to request that this right be revoked due to "much improved circumstances" in Burundi.
For decades, Tanzania has hosted refugees from neighbouring countries in the volatile Great Lakes region, but recently the government has made no secret of its desire to remove its refugee populations, particularly those from Burundi, where hostilities formally ceased in 2008.
Daphrose's resistance to returning to Burundi is typical of many of the camp's 36,000 inhabitants, yet recent developments suggest that the decision to send them home has already been made regardless.
About 6,000 refugees left Tanzania during the first six months of 2009, whereas during the first week of September only one person in Mtabila returned to Burundi.
In addition, Tanzania and Burundi are both part of the East African Federation, an ambitious political union seeking the resolution of refugee situations in order to distance the region from the remnants of its volatile past.
In its citation, the King Baudouin Foundation said IGGs represented 17,100 households, accounting for around 97,000 people, in four hillside regions in Burundi.
