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¤ Surviving in the City, Against All Odds
 The story of a young medical student from Burundi who escapes civil war and genocide and manages to flee to New York City, where he finds both hardship and charity. | ¤ Congo’s Militias Lure Former Rebels From Burundi
Since Burundi’s civil war ended in April, recruiters have been paying former combatants to fight in Congo. | ¤ A Death in Burundi
Claude Niyokindi’s life was testament to how a small country in Africa is healing itself after years of war. | ¤ N.F.L. ROUNDUP; Trip by Jets Defensive Lineman Was Precarious but Inspirational
New York Jet lineman Kenyon Coleman says he was scared when armed men surrounded car he was riding in during mission to Burundi; party was allowed to continue when rebels realized he was not oft-threatened President Pierre Nkurunziza | ¤ After 15 Years, Hints of Peace in Burundi
 A cease-fire signed in late May is still holding, and for the first time all the decision makers including top rebel leaders are all in the same place, in the capital, Bujumbura. | ¤ The Exigent City
Increasingly, refugee camps have become de facto cities, and cities have become extended refugee camps. Is there a place here for architects? | ¤ Our Gas Guzzlers, Their Lives
 Subsistence villagers in Africa will pay with their lives for our refusal to curb greenhouse gas emissions. | ¤ Burundi and Rebels Break Impasse
Burundi’s president and the leader of his country’s last rebel group agreed to the release of political prisoners after talks on carrying out a peace deal signed last year. | ¤ Burundi Rebel Group Expected to Disarm
Burundi and the rebel National Liberation Force signed a cease-fire deal solidifying the end of a 12-year civil war. | ¤ Burundi and Rebels Take a Step Toward a Cease-Fire
After 13 years of civil war, Burundi and the country's last active rebel group agreed to stop hostilities while they discuss a cease-fire. |
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¤ BURUNDI: Ex-women combatants picking up the pieces
BUJUMBURA Friday, February 05, 2010 (IRIN) - By age 15, Annonciata Nduwimana was an accomplished fighter for Burundi's opposition Forces nationales de liberation and knew how to kill in battle. | ¤ BURUNDI: Francine Nijimbere, "I'm like a baby… I am helpless"
BUJUMBURA Tuesday, February 02, 2010 (IRIN) - When her husband cut off her arms in 2008 for giving birth only to girls, life changed drastically for Francine Nijimbere. | ¤ AFRICA: Rotavirus data must propel immunization - experts
DAKAR Wednesday, January 27, 2010 (IRIN) - Health experts hope the release of data showing the success of rotavirus vaccine will help compel policymakers to ensure all children will be immunized. | ¤ How To: Track the scent of life
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, January 19, 2010 (IRIN) - The best search and rescue workers have stamina, a phenomenal sense of smell, and sharp hearing - they usually also have four legs. | ¤ AFRICA: Crackdowns on gays make the closet safer
NAIROBI Tuesday, January 19, 2010 (IRIN) - More than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalizing homosexual acts, and despite accounting for a significant percentage of new infections in many countries, men who have sex with men tend to be left out of the HIV response. | ¤ AFRICA: Vaccination key to stemming rotavirus, say experts
DAKAR Tuesday, December 08, 2009 (IRIN) - African health experts are calling on governments to vaccinate all children against rotavirus, to end an “unacceptable” yet preventable situation in which the virus kills some 1,400 children in developing countries daily. | ¤ Analysis: Worrying split among former Burundi rebels
BUJUMBURA Thursday, December 03, 2009 (IRIN) - Months after transforming itself from a rebel movement into a political party, Burundi's Forces nationales de la liberation (FNL), is embroiled in a leadership wrangle that analysts warn could jeopardize the country's fragile peace. | ¤ In Brief: All I want for Xmas ...is a bag of manure
NAIROBI Thursday, November 26, 2009 (IRIN) - From the first goat sales about five years ago, creative NGO fundraisers have expanded a range of animal and farm-related "gifts" for sale online to benefit developing countries. | ¤ BURUNDI: Activists decry rights abuses, culture of impunity
BUJUMBURA Wednesday, November 25, 2009 (IRIN) - One of the guards of a provincial governor in Burundi seriously beat up a man in early November over a dispute involving a bicycle. The man died after a few days in hospital. The case received wide media coverage in Burundi, with human rights organizations condemning the incident and calling for legal action to be taken against the perpetrator. | ¤ Analysis: Upcoming polls to test Burundi's fragile peace
BUJUMBURA Thursday, November 19, 2009 (IRIN) - Next year’s elections in Burundi, billed as a milestone on the country’s long road to sustainable peace, could trigger more conflict because of a combination of widespread illegal weapons and well-organized youth wings of political parties, according to analysts. |
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