The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday (11th of July) announced that Burundi had effectively eliminated trachoma as a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the eighth country in WHO’s African Region to reach this important ...

Burundi, one of the world's poorest nations, is struggling to emerge from a 12-year, ethnic-based civil war. The country's early history and role of the three main ethnic groups - the Twa, Hutu ...

The multinational effort was Burundi’s first substantial energy generation project in over three decades, and the 7.5-megawatt solar field is the country’s first utility-scale solar power station.

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and ...

Trachoma, a bacterial eye infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, remains the leading infectious cause of blindness ...

The Jiji hydropower plant and the soon-to-be-completed Mulembwe facility will add 49.5MW of installed capacity to the Burundi ...

Burundi's budget will rise 15.9% to 4.4 trillion Burundi francs ($1.5 billion) in the 2024/25 financial year starting in July, largely because of the unfreezing of civil servants' salary bonuses ...

Africa Burundi's president claims Rwanda is backing rebels fighting against his country Rebel group RED-Tabara is believed to be based in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...