Evariste Ndayishimiye is declared winner with 69% of vote A ruling party candidate, handpicked by the outgoing president, has won Burundi’s first competitive election since a decade-long civil war ...

Burundi authorities have arrested four retired army officers suspected of a role in the 1993 assassination of the country's first democratically elected President Melchior Ndadaye, a judicial source ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Burundi's attorney general has issued 17 arrest warrants for former military and civilian officials suspected of involvement in the assassination of the country's first ...

Burundi’s former President Pierre Buyoya has rejected a life sentence he received in absentia this week over the 1993 assassination of his successor, dismissing the case as a “sham”. “We reject these ...

The people of Burundi have been voting on whether to accept a new constitution designed to share power and end war between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis. Long lines of voters formed from dawn to take part ...

Pierre Buyoya died after contractive the coronavirus. He had been hospitalised in Mali for a week, and died en route to Paris for medical treatment. Buyoya died just two months after being convicted ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Pierre Buyoya, the former president of Burundi who twice seized power in military coups and oversaw a prolonged ethnic civil war that killed 300,000 of his countrymen, has died at ...