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Burundi Burundi
Official Name: Republic of Burundi
Region: Great Lakes, Eastern Africa
Borders:
Capital: Bujumbura
Currency: Burundian franc
President: Pierre Nkurunziza
Population: 8,575,172 (2011) World Bank
GDP: US$ 2.326 billion (2011) World Bank
Official Languages: French Language, Kirundi language
Colonial Powers:
- Germany (1885-1924)
- Belgium (1924-1962)
- UN Trust Territory (1962-1966)
Independence: 1966
International Organisations:
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- Wednesday 5 December 2012
Communiqué: 14th Ordinary Summit of EAC Heads of State
November 30, 2012
Theme: Investing in 21st Century Infrastructure for Deeper Integration
1 THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY HEADS OF STATE, HE PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI OF THE REPUBLIC OF (...)
- Thursday 20 October 2011
By Ngor Arol Garang
19 October 2011 (JUBA) - A two day consultative conference on fragile states concluded in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Wednesday, as the economic situation in the new nation worsens, with inflation rising over 60%. (...)
- Sunday 17 March 2013
March 16, 2013 (ENTEBBE/JUBA) – South Sudan is among countries to benefit from a $15.3m project, aimed at facilitating cooperative water resource management and development as part of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).
The NBI is a (...)
- Monday 5 July 2004
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 05, 2004 (PANA) — Southern and western Sudan,
Somalia, the Comoros, Burundi, DR Congo, Central African Republic
(CAR), Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire,
Liberia, Guinea-Bissau and (...)
- Friday 25 May 2007
May 24, 2007 (BUJUMBURA) — The Burundi minister of national defence, Lt-Gen Germain Niyoyankana on Thursday at the Bujumbura airport received a gift of IT equipment and medical supplies offered by Sudan to Burundi.
According to the (...)
- Tuesday 23 November 2004
By TERRY LEONARD, Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Nov 22, 2004 (AP) — On a continent dominated by despots and beset by war, South African President Thabo Mbeki has emerged as the man increasingly called upon to stop (...)
- Tuesday 6 September 2005
by Ssekandi Ronald, Chen Cailin. NBI meeting, 27th May 2004, Khartoum.
Sept 6, 2005 (Kampala) — African states along the River Nile have launched an ambitious 15 million US dollar project to provide a cooperative framework for the (...)
- Sunday 11 March 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 10, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopian forces will hand over two recently captured towns in Somalia which were the strongholds of the Al-Qaida allied Al-Shabab Islamist militants in Somalia to African Union (...)
- Saturday 17 April 2004
NAIROBI, April 16 (Xinhua) — Foreign ministers from ten African countries will meet in Kenya next week to discuss problem of proliferation of illicit small arms and light weapons in the region, the Kenyan Foreign Ministry announced here (...)
- Thursday 1 September 2005
Text of report by Kenyan newspaper The Standard website, BBC Monitoring Africa.
Sep 1, 2005 (Nairobi) — Weather experts from 11 Horn of Africa countries are in Nairobi to explore the possibilities of working with regional governments (...)
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