Burundi, Africa

UNAIDS welcomes the Senate action in Burundi to reject a draft law that sought to criminalize homosexuality. Senators in Burundi overwhelmingly...

BUJUMBURA Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - The government and senior health officials have started discussions to end a strike by staff that has...

BUJUMBURA Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - A weeklong strike by health workers in Burundi has cut services in key hospitals to a bare minimum, with...

BUJUMBURA Wednesday, November 26, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 42 people have been afflicted in an outbreak of cholera in the north-eastern province of...

BUJUMBURA Friday, September 26, 2008 (IRIN) - Years ago, Mammert Buregeya, a 54-year-old displaced Burundian Tutsi, would probably have refused to...

BUJUMBURA Monday, October 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of Burundians have returned home after years of refugee life in Tanzania, but finding shelter...

BUJUMBURA Tuesday, October 14, 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of families are without assistance in the northwestern province of Cibitoke after heavy rains...

BUJUMBURA Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (IRIN) - When Georges Kanuma, the head of a gay rights movement in Burundi, first attended an HIV conference in...

BUJUMBURA Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (IRIN) - Yves Niyonkuru is a lanky 30-year-old Burundian who speaks easily about his life as a gay man in a...

BUJUMBURA Friday, October 24, 2008 (IRIN) - HIV programmes in Burundi have been struggling to support people affected by the pandemic since the...