Often when I attend high level events, I am always looking forward to an honest conversation from our leaders and curators about key topics such as, the state of refugees in Burundi, in Central African Republic, our Elections in Africa, how to make them transparent, just and fair.
The interviews and FGDs focused specifically on the general state of MSRH in Burundi and Northern Uganda, aimed at describing the general state of maternal health and understanding the factors affecting women's utilisation of basic MSRHS, taking into consideration the possible effects of the recent conflict.
So here I lie in the city at the heart of the European Union, which, together with its member states, funds a substantial portion of Burundi's annual budget.
Young army officers tried to overthrow the government of Burundi today, seizing the state radio station for several hours before they were surrounded and at least some of them surrendered, Burundi military officials said.
Ruanda-Urundi, twin territory in central East Africa that was administered by Belgium from 1922 to 1962 and which thereafter became the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi.
These batches, so the theory went, were given to several thousand people in what was then the Belgian Congo and its associated UN Trust Territories (now, respectively, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the states of Rwanda and Burundi).
As elsewhere and perhaps more than elsewhere the Catholic and Protestant missions played the prime role in the development of education in the Belgian Congo (now Congo [Kinshasa]; called Zaire from 1971 to 1997) and in Ruanda-Urundi (the present states of Rwanda and Burundi).
Lydia Nsekera of Burundi was elected in 2013 two years agoo), with her initial role stated as "representative of women's football" that was then literally crossed out and replaced by "female member of the executive committee".
The East African Community (EAC) is a regional inter-governmental organization of five Partner States, namely the Republic of Kenya, the Republic of Uganda, the Republic of Burundi, the Republic of Rwanda and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Burundi is in a state of confused unrest after weeks of protests have prompted an attempted coup and fierce power struggle on the streets of the capital, over efforts by the president, Pierre Nkurunziza, to stand for a third term.
