News Burundi Politics: Former Burundi Prime Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni arrested
Burundi’s former Prime Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni has been arrested, the country’s justice ministry has said. Bunyoni was prime minister from June 2020 to September 2022, when he was sacked ...
News Burundi Politics: Burundi’s quota for women in politics has had mixed results, but that’s no reason to scrap it
Since 2005, Burundi has set quotas to ensure that the country’s three ethnic groups (Hutu, Tutsi and Twa), as well as women, are represented in its parliament, central government and municipal ...
News Burundi Politics: New Data Confirm Political Violence Targeting Women is on the Rise
Burundi and Pakistan are indicative cases. Political violence targeting women extends beyond sexual violence, which makes up only one-third of all violence targeting women events: Political ...
News Burundi Politics: Burundi moves to seize assets of opponents in exile
The U.N. and international rights groups say there are credible reports of violations in Burundi and that political freedoms have shrunk dramatically since 2015. The government denies this and has ...
