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Civil War Back on Burundi’s Doorstep

... the case in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Cote d’Ivoire. Family-type regimes exist in Togo and Gabon where the sons of deceased presidents have seized the power. The Burundi situation is extremely tense, with the country balancing on the verge of a civil war and maybe even genocide. On May 15, Bujumbura experienced a failed military coup against the president, and the situation is still hardly under control. African states and the broader international community are becoming increasingly worried, as they very well remember 1994, when more than 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu were slaughtered in neighboring Rwanda. Besides, an unstable Burundi threatens to fuel the ...

28.05.2015

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D.R. Congo - Land of Many Perils

... caused millions to die and involved Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Burundi and Congo, were so poorly documented. Also, the tag of a civil war should be discarded, as it involved a huge amount of foreign participation. It is hard to predict how Congo will be ... ... this story it made me smile, but after talking with the crew and finding out that this popular phrase is used by much of East Africa, in local dialects and in Swahili it means “everything ok?”, it made sense. In an awfully broken way the ...

29.08.2013

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