Burundi
Facts and historical events related to Burundi, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- From today, if you're from Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and…
- #BREAKING Unconfirmed reports: late Burundi President rather died of COVID-19; infected wife critically ill…
- #BREAKING President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi has died as a result of a heart attack.
- Burundi's Elections 20/5/20: *Massive open campaign rallies by ruling party despite COVID-19 cases; 9 days…
- Ahead of the Presidential elections to be held on May 20th, Burundi has expelled WHO country head Walter Ka…
- Burundi's elections is on 20th of May, and she has WARNED that any international observers arriving in Buru…
- #Diasporadiaries Manchester City's Leroy Sane's dad was a Senegalese national football team striker. Stars…
- There are widespread complaints that the Burundi Under 20 side, all over-aged players, were issued brand ne…
- While we were on other things, Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza quickly organised a referendum to exte…
- Given that only 16% of Africa’s trade takes place between African countries, 44 nations on 21 March signed…
- Meanwhile in Burundi... Football officials were arrested and imprisoned for "conspiracy against the Preside…
- German East Africa was a colony from. 1885 until 1919 which included Burundi, Rwanda & Tanganyika (Tanzania…
- Swahili is spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, DR Congo, Comoros, Mozambique, Rwanda, Burundi and parts of S…
- The average per capita spending in Burundi is at around US$175 per capita, compared to over $9,000 in the S…
- Rwanda, Burundi, CAR, Benin and Togo citizens are the least satisfied with their lives - 2013 World Happine…
- Burundi's motto "Ubumwe, Ibikorwa, Iterambere" in Kirundi means "Unity, Work, Progress". Expressed in Frenc…
- Burundi’s first democratically elected President Melchior Ndadaye was assassinated in October 1993 after on…
- The Nile River Basin comprise of Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, N+S.Sudan Tanzani…
- Top 10 world’s saddest countries: 1. C.A.R; 2.DR Congo; 3.Afghanistan; 4.Chad; 5.Haiti; 6.Burundi; 7.Togo;…
- World Poorest Nations (UN & WHO): 1)DR Congo; 2)Zimbabwe; 3)Liberia; 4)Niger; 5)Burundi; 6)CAR; 7)Eritrea;…
- Latest GPI survey: 10 most dangerous African nations 1)Somalia 2)Sudan 3)DRC 4)CAR 5)Libya 6)Nigeria 7)Chad…
- Gunmen massacred 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi, one of the deadliest… (2004)
- Nelson Mandela mediated a Burundi peace summit in Arusha, Tanzania, bringing together the country's warring… (2001)
- The aircraft carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was… (1994)
- Burundian President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed in a bloodless coup led by Major Pierre Buyoya while B… (1987)
- Burundian President Michel Micombero was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, w… (1976)
- King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi was deposed by his son, Prince Charles Ndizi, who took the throne as Ntare V. (1966)
- Burundi gained independence from Belgium. (1962)
- Prince Louis Rwagasore, hero of Burundi's independence movement and its prime minister, was assassinated in… (1961)
- Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi whose death in a 1994 plane crash helped ignite the Rwandan genoci… (1955)
- Melchior Ndadaye, who became Burundi's first democratically elected and first Hutu president, was born. (1953)