Burundi

December 16, 2025

Africa

Rebels claim capture of hundreds of Burundi soldiers

M23 fighters have warned foreign troops backing the DR Congo army in a decades-old conflict to leave immediately

By Editors Desk

FILE PHOTO. M23 fighter in the foreground as detained FARDC soldiers are loaded onto trucks at Stade de l’Unite, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 30, 2025. © Daniel Buuma/Getty Images

December 31, 2023

Africa

Burundi's president says homosexuality 'imported from the West', calls for stoning gays

Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and jail terms of up to two years if convicted of same-sex offences.

By Editors Desk

File photo: Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye is welcomed upon arrival at Pulkovo airport ahead of the second Russia-Africa summit, in Saint Petersburg on July 26, 2023. © Peter Kovalev, A

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