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Premium badgeIFC’s Olivier Buyoya making his mark in West Africa

By focusing on the financing of agricultural projects, Burundi’s Olivier Buyoya, appointed head of the International Finance Corporation’s West Africa...

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empty nets

Premium badgeDRC, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania: Why fish are disappearing from the Great Lakes The African Great Lakes, a global reservoir of biodiversity whose resources benefit 50 million on the continent, are more threatened than ever by over...
Members of Burundi’s National Defence Force (FDN) arrive at the Goma airport © Members of Burundi’s National Defence Force, part of the troops of the East African Community Regional Force, arrive at the airport in Goma, DRC 5 March, 2023. (REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi)

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Premium badgeDRC: Lack of trust holds back regional force as Angola steps in 9 March marked half a year since the Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi authorised the six-month deployment of the East Africa Co...
The EAC’s chiefs of staff during their 9 February meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. © DR

mediations impasse

Premium badgeWhat the EAC’s Nairobi summit decided about the M23 rebels Leaders of the East African Community met in Kenya, five days after the Bujumbura summit in the midst of ongoing hostilities between the Congolese arm...

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© Olivier Buyoya, head of the International Finance Corporation’s West Africa region. Photo supplied

knee deep

Premium badgeIFC’s Olivier Buyoya making his mark in West Africa By focusing on the financing of agricultural projects, Burundi’s Olivier Buyoya, appointed head of the International Finance Corporation’s West Africa...
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empty nets

Premium badgeDRC, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania: Why fish are disappearing from the Great Lakes The African Great Lakes, a global reservoir of biodiversity whose resources benefit 50 million on the continent, are more threatened than ever by over...
Members of Burundi’s National Defence Force (FDN) arrive at the Goma airport © Members of Burundi’s National Defence Force, part of the troops of the East African Community Regional Force, arrive at the airport in Goma, DRC 5 March, 2023. (REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi)

scorecard

Premium badgeDRC: Lack of trust holds back regional force as Angola steps in 9 March marked half a year since the Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi authorised the six-month deployment of the East Africa Co...

Burundi top stories

© Olivier Buyoya, head of the International Finance Corporation’s West Africa region. Photo supplied

knee deep

Premium badgeIFC’s Olivier Buyoya making his mark in West Africa By focusing on the financing of agricultural projects, Burundi’s Olivier Buyoya, appointed head of the International Finance Corporation’s West Africa...
RDV_INFOG_BIODIVERSITE-MENACEE_EN

empty nets

Premium badgeDRC, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania: Why fish are disappearing from the Great Lakes The African Great Lakes, a global reservoir of biodiversity whose resources benefit 50 million on the continent, are more threatened than ever by over...
Members of Burundi’s National Defence Force (FDN) arrive at the Goma airport © Members of Burundi’s National Defence Force, part of the troops of the East African Community Regional Force, arrive at the airport in Goma, DRC 5 March, 2023. (REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi)

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Premium badgeDRC: Lack of trust holds back regional force as Angola steps in 9 March marked half a year since the Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi authorised the six-month deployment of the East Africa Co...

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Magentic Attraction

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let it rain

Premium badgeKenya, Somalia…latest Horn of Africa climate outlook looks dry The latest climate forecast showing that the greater horn of Africa will experience its fifth consecutive failed rainy season could not have come at a...
© Burundi has one of the world’s lowest levels of rural electrification. This photo was taken in Buye, north of the capital Bujumbura, on May 1, 2015. REUTERS/Edmund Blair

game changer

Premium badgeVirunga says Gridworks investment can kick-start African hydro-power projects Investment from British government-owned Gridworks in Virunga Power can help drive the advance of hydro-electric power projects in eastern and souther...
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Black Market

Premium badgeDRC finance minister Kazadi says Rwanda gold trade holds back EAC potential Rwanda’s tolerance of gold smuggling is undermining the free-trade potential of the East African Community (EAC), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) f...
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Back to the Future

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© In this Wednesday, May 20, 2020 file photo, main opposition party presidential candidate Agathon Rwasa speaks to the media after casting his vote in the presidential election, in Ciri, Ngozi province, Burundi. (AP Photo/Dorcas Nininahazwe, File

one political party

Premium badgeBurundi: The CNDD-FDD, a steamroller leaving little space for the opposition Despite some measures of appeasement, particularly among exiles, Burundian political life remains firmly locked by the ruling party. But the 2018 cons...