Burundi
Republic of Burundi
République du Burundi; Republika yu Burundi
CAPITAL: Bujumbura
FLAG: The national flag consists of a white circle in the center with arms extending to the four corne...
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Burundi
Burundi is a small landlocked country in Central Africa, sharing borders with Tanzania on the east, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) in the west, and Rwanda in the north. With a popula...
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Burundi
POPULATION 6,373,002ROMAN CATHOLIC 62 percentAFRICAN INDIGENOUS BELIEFS 23 percentPROTESTANT 13 percentMUSLIM 2 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of Burundi is a small Ce...
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Area: 27,816 sq km (10,740 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 8,090,000 (including fewer than 400,000 refugees in
Tanzania
)Capital:
Bujumbura
Head of state and government:
President
Pierre
Nkurunzi...
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After more than a decade in refugee camps, Jean Kayobera was ready to come home.He longed to see his house, although he heard it had been taken over by another family during the Central African nat...
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A group of 88 Burundians who have lived as refugees in neighboring Tanzania for up to 35 years on Friday became the first of some 8,500 to head to the United States for a new life.The U.N. refugee ...
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MOGADISHU, Dec 23 (Reuters) - A first contingent of 100
peacekeepers from Burundi deployed in the Somali capital
Mogadishu on Sunday, hours after fighting between Islamist
rebels and government fo...
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The level of gender-based sexual violence has reached appalling levels in eastern Congo and Burundi and stronger efforts are needed to ostracize perpetrators of such crimes, the U.N. human rights c...
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