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  • Abahuza
    Abahuza
    The Abahuza party is a monarchist political party in Burundi. Officially called the Party for the Restoration of Monarchy and Dialogue in Burundi, Abahuza literally means “The Reconciliators” in the Kirundi language. The party was registered with Burundi’s Interior Ministry on September 20, 2004...

  • Africa
    Africa
    Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

  • Agathon Rwasa
    Agathon Rwasa
    Agathon Rwasa is a Burundian politician and the leader of the National Liberation Forces . He was a Hutu militia leader during the Burundi Civil War.Rwasa was reported to be a Born-again Christian....

  • Albertine Rift
  • Alphonse-Marie Kadege
    Alphonse-Marie Kadege
    Alphonse-Marie Kadege was Vice-President of Burundi from 30 April 2003 to 11 November 2004. He is an ethnic Tutsi and a member of the Union for National Progress Party. On January 15, 2007, he was acquitted on charges of plotting a coup, along with former president Domitien Ndayizeye and three...

  • African Great Lakes
    African Great Lakes
    The African Great Lakes are a series of lakes and the Rift Valley lakes in and around the geographic Great Rift Valley formed by the action of the tectonic East African Rift on the continent of Africa...

  • Arusha Accord
  • Assassination of Habyarimana and Ntaryamira
    Assassination of Habyarimana and Ntaryamira
    The assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira on the evening of April 6, 1994, was the catalyst for the Rwandan Genocide. The airplane carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda....


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  • Bantu
    Bantu
    Bantu is used as a general label for 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa of speakers of Bantu languages, distributed from Cameroon east across Central Africa and Eastern Africa to Southern Africa...

  • Belgian colonial empire
    Belgian colonial empire
    The Belgian colonial empire consisted of three colonies possessed by Belgium between 1901 and 1962: Belgian Congo , Rwanda and Burundi...

  • Bisoro
    Bisoro
    Bisoro Balue is a small village in Cameroon.There is another village called Bisoro in Burundi.-Location:Bisoro is located in the Rumpi Hills of the Ekondo-Titi subdivision in the Ndian departement of Cameroon's Southwest Region. It is situated 37 km southeast of the Bakassi Peninsula in the...

  • Bubanza
    Bubanza
    Bubanza is a city located in northwestern Burundi. It is the capital city of Bubanza Province. It is also the seat of the Commune of Bubanza....

  • Bubanza Province
    Bubanza Province
    -Communes:It is divided administratively into 5 communes:* Commune of Bubanza * Commune of Gihanga * Commune of Musigati * Commune of Mpanda * Commune of Rugazi...

  • Bujumbura
    Bujumbura
    -Education:The University of Burundi is located in Bujumbura.Hope Africa University is located in BujumburaUniversité du Lac Tanganyika is located in Bujumbura-External links:**...

  • Bujumbura Mairie Province
  • Bujumbura Rural
  • Burundi
    Burundi
    Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...

  • Burundian monarchy
    Burundian monarchy
    The Burundian monarchy existed according to the traditional account from the 16th century until 1966, but it is now thought that the first king began to reign in 1680. Like the monarchy in neighbouring Rwanda it was led by Tutsi kings...

  • Burundi Civil War
    Burundi Civil War
    The Burundi Civil War was an armed conflict lasting from 1993 to 2005. The civil war was the result of long standing ethnic divisions between the Hutu and the Tutsi tribes in Burundi...

  • Burundi franc
  • Burundi Workers' Party
    Burundi Workers' Party
    Burundi Workers' Party or UBU was a clandestine Marxist political party in Burundi. Its primary constituency was the large Burundian refugee population situated in neighboring Rwanda...

  • Bururi
    Bururi
    Bururi is a city located in southern Burundi. It is the capital city of Bururi Province and has around 20.000 inhabitants in 2007.In 1972, local Hutu gendarmes in Bururi drove out military and civil government control of the Tutsi military regime of Micombero. A republic was declared, and a week...

  • Bururi Province
    Bururi Province
    Bururi is one of the seventeen provinces of Burundi. It is also the largest. It includes the city of Bururi, the provincial capital, and the city of Rumonge which sits on the shores of Lake Tanganyika...


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  • Cankuzo
    Cankuzo
    Cankuzo is a city located in eastern Burundi. It is the capital city of Cankuzo Province....

  • Cankuzo Province
    Cankuzo Province
    Cankuzo is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. Located in the eastern part of the country, the province covers an area of 1,965 km². The provincial capital is Cankuzo.-Communes:...

  • Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter
    Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter
    Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter sets out the UN Security Council's powers to maintain peace. It allows the Council to "determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" and to take military and nonmilitary action to "restore international peace...

  • Charles Nqakula
    Charles Nqakula
    Charles Nqakula is a South African politician who has been Minister of Defence since September 2008. He was Minister of Safety and Security from May 2002 to September 2008. Tipped as a contender for the future presidency of South Africa, he is concurrently national chairperson of the South African...

  • Cibitoke Province
    Cibitoke Province
    Cibitoke is one of the 17 provinces of Republic of Burundi....

  • Collines of Burundi
    Collines of Burundi
    The Communes of Burundi are divided into 2,639 collines. Colline means "hill" in French, one of the two official languages of the country. The collines are listed below, by commune:-Bisoro:* Buburu* Buhabwa* Gitaramuka* Kanka* Kariba* Kiganda* Kirika...

  • Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
    Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
    The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, is a free trade area with nineteen member states stretching from Libya to Zimbabwe. COMESA formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981...

  • Commune of Gihanga
    Commune of Gihanga
    Gihanga is a commune of Bubanza Province in north-western Burundi. The capital lies at Gihanga city.-Towns and villages: Gihanga Buramata Gihungwe Kagwena Mpanda Mukindu Murira Muyange Ninga Nyeshanga Rushakashaka...

  • Commune of Mpanda
    Commune of Mpanda
    Mpanda is a commune of Bubanza Province in north-western Burundi. The capital lies at Mpanda city....

  • Commune of Musigati
    Commune of Musigati
    Musigati is a commune of Bubanza Province in north-western Burundi. The capital lies at Musigati city....

  • Communes of Burundi
    Communes of Burundi
    ||The provinces of Burundi are subdivided into 117 communes. The communes are further subdivided into collines. The communes are listed below, by province:- Bubanza :* Commune of Bubanza* Commune of Gihanga* Commune of Musigati* Commune of Mpanda...

  • Cyprien Ntaryamira
    Cyprien Ntaryamira
    Cyprien Ntaryamira , was President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his death when his plane was shot down on 6 April 1994.-Biography:...


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  • East Africa
    East Africa
    East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...

  • East African Community
    East African Community
    The East African Community is an intergovernmental organisation comprising the five east African countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Pierre Nkurunziza, the President of the Republic of Burundi, is the current Chairman of the East African Community. The EAC was originally...

  • East African Federation
    East African Federation
    East African Federation is the name of the proposed political union of the member nations of the East African Community, such that the five member states would federate into a single sovereign state....

  • Economy of Burundi
    Economy of Burundi
    Burundi is a landlocked, resource-poor country with an underdeveloped manufacturing sector. The mainstay of the Burundian economy is agriculture, accounting for 54%of GDP in 1997. Agriculture supports more than 70% of the labour force, the majority of whom are subsistence farmers...

  • Esther Kamatari
    Esther Kamatari
    Princess Esther Kamatari is a writer, model, and exiled Burundian princess.Esther Kamatari grew up in Burundi as a member of the royal family. Following independence in 1962, the king was overthrown in a military coup d'etat, and the monarchy abolished in 1966. Kamatari fled the country in 1970...


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  • Gatumba
    Gatumba
    The village of Gatumba lies on the western side of Burundi, near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The place is known for a massacre that took place at a refugee camp connected to the village.-Massacre:...

  • Geography of Burundi
    Geography of Burundi
    Burundi is located in central Africa, to the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the co-ordinates .-Physical geography:Burundi occupies an area equal to 27,830 square kilometres in size, of which 25,650 km² is land...

  • German East Africa
    German East Africa
    German East Africa was a German colony in East Africa, which included what are now :Burundi, :Rwanda and Tanganyika . Its area was , nearly three times the size of Germany today....

  • German East African rupie
    German East African rupie
    The Rupie was the currency of German East Africa between 1890 and 1916, continuing to circulate in the Tanganyika Territory until 1920.-History:...

  • Gihanga
    Gihanga
    Gihanga is a town in the Commune of Gihanga in Bubanza Province in north western Burundi.It is the capital of the Commune of Gihanga.-External links:*...

  • Gitega
    Gitega
    Gitega is the second largest city in Burundi, lying east of Bujumbura. It is the capital of Gitega Province, one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. It is the home of the Burundi National Museum and the Archdiocese of Gitega...

  • Gitega Province
    Gitega Province
    Gitega is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. Its capital is Gitega. It has a population of about 675,000 and an area of 1,979 km²....


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  • Karuzi
    Karuzi
    Karuzi is a city located in eastern Burundi. It is the capital city of Karuzi Province....

  • Karuzi Province
    Karuzi Province
    Karuzi is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi....

  • Kirundo
    Kirundo
    Kirundo is a city located in northern Burundi. It is the capital city of Kirundo Province....

  • Kingdom of Burundi
  • Kirundi
    Kirundi
    Kirundi, also known as Rundi, is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language spoken by some 8.7 million people in Burundi and adjacent parts of Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa, as well as in Uganda. It is the official language of Burundi...

  • Kirundo Province
    Kirundo Province
    Kirundo is one of the seventeen provinces of Burundi with seven communes . Kirundo has three big lakes: Cohoha, Rweru, and Rwihinda. Lakes Cohoha and Rweru are located in commune Busone, and Lake Rwihinda is in commune Kirundo...

  • Kayanza
    Kayanza
    Kayanza is a city located in northern Burundi. It is the capital city of Kayanza Province. The city is known for its tea production....

  • Kayanza Province
    Kayanza Province
    Kayanza is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. Its capital city is also called Kayanza....


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  • Lake Tanganyika
    Lake Tanganyika
    Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake...

  • LGBT rights in Burundi
    LGBT rights in Burundi
    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender persons in Burundi face legal issues not experienced by non-LGBT citizens. The lower house of Burundi's parliament passed legislation criminalizing homosexual acts in November 2008...

     (Gay rights)
  • List of kings of Burundi
  • List of political parties in Burundi

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  • Makamba
    Makamba
    Makamba is a city located in southern Burundi. It is the capital city of Makamba Province....

  • Makamba Province
    Makamba Province
    Makamba is the southernmost province of Burundi. The province has a population of 357,492 and covers an area of 1,960 km². The provincial capital is Makamba.makamba has six communes. Many refugees have returned from Tanzania to this province, especially to the communes of Kayogoro, Nyanza lac,...

  • Melchior Ndadaye
    Melchior Ndadaye
    Melchior Ndadaye was a Burundian intellectual and politician. He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election...

  • Michel Micombero
    Michel Micombero
    Michel Micombero was the first President of Burundi from November 28, 1966 to November 1, 1976. He was member of the Tutsi ethnicity....

  • Meeussen's rule
    Meeussen's rule
    Meeussen’s rule is the name for a special case of tone reduction in Bantu languages. The tonal alternation it describes is the lowering in some contexts of the last tone of a pattern of two adjacent High tones , resulting in the pattern HL. The phenomenon is named after its first observer, the...

  • Mount Heha
    Mount Heha
    Mount Heha is the highest mountain in Burundi and the highest point in the Burundi Highlands mountain range. It is located in the Bujumbura Rural province of Burundi and it lies approximately 20 km to the east of Lake Tanganyika and about 30 km to the southeast of Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi....

  • Mugongo-Manga
    Mugongo-Manga
    Mugongo-Manga is one of the communes of Bujumbura Rural Province. Mugongo-Manga is located in natural region of Mugamba. There are 11 natural regions in Burundi: Mugamba, Bututsi, Mumirwa, Imbo, Buragane, Bugesera, Kirimiro, Buha.-Health:...

  • Mpanda
    Mpanda, Mpanda
    Mpanda is a town in the Commune of Mpanda in Bubanza Province in north western Burundi.It is the seat of the Commune of Mpanda.-External links:*...

  • Muramvya
    Muramvya
    Muramvya is a city located in central Burundi. It is the capital city of Muramvya Province....

  • Muramvya Province
    Muramvya Province
    Muramvya is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. The capital is Muramvya.It is also known as "Iwabo W'Imana". It has a unique cultural landscape .- Culture :...

  • Musigati
    Musigati
    Musigati is a town in the Commune of Musigati in Bubanza Province in north western Burundi.It is the seat of the Commune of Musigati.-External links:*...

  • Mutaga IV Mbikije of Burundi
    Mutaga IV Mbikije of Burundi
    Mutaga IV Mbikije was the king of Burundi from August 21, 1908 until November 30, 1915. He was the son of king Mwami Mwezi IV. He had two sons:* Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi* Prince Ignace Kamatari -External links:**...

  • Muyinga
    Muyinga
    Muyinga is a city located in northern Burundi. It is the capital city of Muyinga Province. It lies at an altitude of 1731 m and has a population of 48,997....

  • Muyinga Province
    Muyinga Province
    Muyinga is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi....

  • Mwambutsa I Mbariza
    Mwambutsa I Mbariza
    Mwambutsa I Mbariza was the king of Burundi from 1767 to 1796. His only son was Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba. He succeeded Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo....

  • Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi
    Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi
    King Mwambutsa IV Bangiricenge was the king of Burundi from December 16, 1915 to July 8, 1966. He was given the title of Mwami,King. He succeeded Mutaga IV Mbikije. Like other Burundian kings, he was an ethnic Ganwa. During the early part of his reign, Burundi was transferred from Germany to...

  • Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo
    Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo
    Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo was the king of Burundi from 1739 to 1767. He died in Butare. He succeeded king Ntare I Kivimira Savuyimba Semunganzashamba Rushatsi Cambarantama....

  • Mwaro
    Mwaro
    Mwaro is a city located in central Burundi. It is the capital city of Mwaro Province....

  • Mwaro Province
    Mwaro Province
    Mwaro is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. Its capital is Mwaro.Mwaro one of two provinces that were created in 2002 as a result of splitting the Muramvya province; the other province retained the name of Muramvya....

  • Mwezi III Ndagushimiye of Burundi
    Mwezi III Ndagushimiye of Burundi
    Mwami Mwezi III Ndagushimiye was the king of Burundi from 1709 to 1739....

  • Mwezi IV Gisabo of Burundi
    Mwezi IV Gisabo of Burundi
    Mwami Mwezi IV Gisabo Bikata-Bijoga was the king of Burundi from 1852 to 1908. He was the son of king Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba....


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  • National Council for the Defense of Democracy–Forces for the Defense of Democracy (NCDD-FDD)
  • National Forces of Liberation (PALIPEHUTU)
  • National Liberation Front (Burundi)
    National Liberation Front (Burundi)
    The National Liberation Front is an ethnically Hutu rebel group that sometimes functions as a political party in Burundi. The FLN has been considered a minor group in the Burundian Civil War compared to the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy, and to...

     (FROLINA)
  • Ntare I Kivimira Savuyimba Semunganzashamba Rushatsi Cambarantama
    Ntare I Kivimira Savuyimba Semunganzashamba Rushatsi Cambarantama
    Ntare I Kivimira Savuyimba Semunganzashamba Rushatsi Cambarantama was the king of Burundi from 1680 to 1709. He was a legendary descendant of the Ntwero family, and was probably the first king of Burundi....

  • Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba
    Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba
    Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba was the king of Burundi from 1796 to 1850. He was the son of king Mwambutsa I Mbariza....

  • Ntare V of Burundi
  • Ngozi
    Ngozi, Burundi
    Ngozi is a city located in northern Burundi. It is the capital city of Ngozi Province....

  • Ngozi Province
    Ngozi Province
    Ngozi is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.The name Ngozi stands for blessing....


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  • Pierre Buyoya
    Pierre Buyoya
    Major Pierre Buyoya is a Burundian politician who has ruled Burundi twice, from 1987 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2003...

  • Prince Godefroid Kamatari
    Prince Godefroid Kamatari
    Prince Godefroid Kamatari, , was a grandson of mwami HM Mutaga IV Mbikije of Burundi, and a son of HRH Prince Ignace Kamatari and his second wife Princess Agrippine....

  • Provinces of Burundi
    Provinces of Burundi
    ||Burundi is divided into seventeen provinces, each named after their respective capital.-See also:*Communes of Burundi*Collines of Burundi*Geography of Burundi*List of Burundian provinces by area*List of Burundian provinces by population...

  • Princess Esther Kamatari

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  • Ruanda-Urundi
    Ruanda-Urundi
    Ruanda-Urundi was a Belgian suzerainty from 1916 to 1924, a League of Nations Class B Mandate from 1924 to 1945 and then a United Nations trust territory until 1962, when it became the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi.- Overview :...

  • Rurubu River
    Rurubu River
    The Ruvubu River is a river in central Africa whose waters gather from the most distant portion of the Nile basin. It is about 300 km long. It rises in the north of Burundi, near the town of Kayanza and then does a southward arc through Burundi, being joined by the Ruvyironza River near Gitega...

  • Rutana
    Rutana
    Rutana is a town in southern Burundi. It lies west of Mount Kikizi, one of the highest mountains in the nation. The Kagera Falls lie near the town. It is the capital of Rutana Province, one of the 17 provinces of Burundi....

  • Rutana Province
    Rutana Province
    Rutana is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.The communes of Rutana are:* Bukemba* Giharo* Gitanga* Mpinga-Kavoye* Musongati* Rutana...

  • Ruyigi
    Ruyigi
    Ruyigi is a city located in eastern Burundi. It is the capital city of Ruyigi Province....

  • Ruyigi Province
    Ruyigi Province
    Ruyigi is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi....

  • Rwanda
    Rwanda
    Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

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