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Burundi expels the country's top World Health Organization representative and three other experts coordinating the COVID-19 response. The government says they are "persona non grata" and must leave Burundi. They accused them of "interfering with the government response to the pandemic".
2020-05-14

Remains of 6,032 people are found with thousands of bullets in six mass graves in Karuzi Province, Burundi, the largest find yet of an excavation project into atrocities of the Burundian Civil War.
2020-02-14

A senior Burundian Army general, Athanase Kararuza, an ethnic Tutsi and security advisor to Burundi Vice-President Gaston Sindimwo, is shot dead by heavily armed men in the capital Bujumbura.
2016-04-25

The U.S. State Department issues a travel advisory for Burundi and advises its citizens there to leave as soon as possible due to the increased violence in the capital Bujumbura where 87 people were killed this weekend. Families of U.S. government personnel and non-emergency personnel have been ordered to leave immediately.
2015-12-13

At least nine people are killed after gunmen attack a bar in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura.
2015-11-8

Voters in Burundi go to the polls for a presidential election amidst gunfire and violence with President Pierre Nkurunziza seeking a third term and opposition parties boycotting the election. At least two people have been killed in election violence.
2015-07-21

Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, warns that violence can explode into armed conflict in Burundi following events of the current presidential election.
2015-07-9

The United Nations publishes a toned down version of its report into war crimes said to have occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the 1990s after Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi rejected the report's findings.
2010-10-1

Burundi's opposition leader Agathon Rwasa goes into hiding after being threatened by the country's government.
2010-06-30

Thirteen soldiers in Burundi have been arrested for allegedly plotting a coup to overthrow President Pierre Nkurunziza.
2010-01-31