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BURUNDI: HIV policy ignores the disabled
UN: Nearly 400,000 Burundian Refugees Return Home From Tanzania
BURUNDI: Returning home after 35 years
BURUNDI-TANZANIA: New beginnings for the "1972 refugees"
BURUNDI: Francine Nijimbere: "My husband cut off my arms for having a girl"
BURUNDI: Is HIV/AIDS education failing young people?
BURUNDI: HIV/AIDS programmes dealt a severe blow
BURUNDI: Boost for returnees
BURUNDI-TANZANIA: Thousands of refugees still awaiting repatriation
BURUNDI: Rebel activity displaces hundreds in Bubanza
BURUNDI: Sexual violence, cultural prejudice put women in
BURUNDI: Peace process must be concluded by year-end - mediator
UN Agencies Need Money to Help Burundi Refugees Go Home
BURUNDI: Population Growth and Poor Farming Methods Weigh on the Land
BURUNDI: Ancilla Riziki: "We live on rich people's garbage"
BURUNDI: Sex and drugs leave Bujumbura's homeless at risk of HIV
UN offers cash incentives to returning Burundian refugees
BURUNDI: Regina Nzokirantevye, "I have been displaced most of my life"
BURUNDI: Shrinking lakes and denuded forests
BURUNDI-DRC: Fitina Ibrahim, "We are using sewage water"
BURUNDI: Urban Waste Becomes Urban Fuel
BURUNDI: Moise Barekezabe, "Home is home, despite the hardships"
BURUNDI: Paediatric HIV still a major challenge
BURUNDI: Study says coffee harvest linked to increase in gender-based violence
BURUNDI: Armed banditry, sexual violence increasing, says watchdog
BURUNDI: I am free to live after revealing my HIV status
BURUNDI: Yves Habonimana, 25: "My legs were sore, my whole body swollen"
BURUNDI: Food shortages could harm people on ARVs
BURUNDI: Young detainees suffer abuse in prison - report
BURUNDI: Outrage and concern over national ARV shortages
BURUNDI: Reluctant HIV-positive refugees urged to return home
BURUNDI: Help for 300,000 flood victims
WFP: Burundi Flood Victims at Crisis Point
BURUNDI: Appeal for $132m humanitarian aid
BURUNDI: Prisoners form HIV-positive association behind bars
BURUNDI: Floods threaten food security in Bujumbura Rural
BURUNDI: Relief aid reaches thousands displaced by floods
BURUNDI: Thousands displaced by floods need aid
BURUNDI: Government sets up fund for flood victims
BURUNDI: Food crisis looms in the north, east-central
BURUNDI: Gov't adopts plan against avian flu
BURUNDI: Gov't under pressure to curb continued rights violations
BURUNDI: NGOs risk expulsion for flouting rules
BURUNDI: Huge challenges in solving land crisis
BURUNDI: Food cuts for HIV-positive people worry NGOs
BURUNDI: Compulsory HIV testing before marriage still a sore point
BURUNDI: Grant to benefit education, health and agriculture
BURUNDI: Gov't studying report by human rights group, spokesman says
BURUNDI: Bid to resolve land dispute under way
US To Accept 10,000 Burundian Refugees From Tanzania
BURUNDI: Belgium grants 10 million euros
BURUNDI: Cholera breaks out in Bujumbura
BURUNDI: Joint truce verification mechanism launched
Burundi: Hospital Officials Detain Hundreds of Insolvent Patients
BURUNDI: Peace accord may not end human rights violations
BURUNDI: Providing healthcare to hard-to-reach urban refugees
BURUNDI: Last rebel group signs cease-fire with government
BURUNDI: Home is still home, even without land
BURUNDI: Belgium to increase aid to eradicate poverty
BURUNDI: Food security threat as banana blight looms
BURUNDI: Refugee agency begins 'promoted' repatriation
BURUNDI: Gov't reallocates hunger funds
BURUNDI: Plan to combat desertification
BURUNDI: Bubanza flood victims receive food aid
BURUNDI-RWANDA: Thousands more asylum seekers repatriated
BURUNDI: Side effects of free maternal, child healthcare
BURUNDI: FNL intensifies attacks as peace talks go on
BURUNDI: Lack of health facilities, staff shortages impede ARV rollout
BURUNDI-DRC: Refugees determined to remain in Bujumbura, despite hardship
BURUNDI: Gov't, UN form cooperation committee
BURUNDI: Floods displace 5,000 in south
BURUNDI: Bujumbura seeks UN help in reconstruction efforts
BURUNDI: Rains displace thousands, destroy crops and cemetery
Burundi Struggles To Implement Free Primary Education
BURUNDI-RWANDA: Officials vow to resolve land disputes by June
BURUNDI-DRC: UN agency moves Congolese refugees from Bujumbura
BURUNDI: Nkurunziza announces free maternal healthcare, pay rise for workers
BURUNDI: Heavy rains leave hundreds homeless in Cibitoke
BURUNDI: UN agency builds homes for returnees, IDPs
Burundi Tackles Malaria Using New Drug Treatment
More Bed Nets Needed in Burundi's Fight Against Malaria
BURUNDI: Gov't launches reconstruction plan
BURUNDI: Interview with Andrč Bampoye, Burundi's director-general for secondary education
Northern Burundi Hit Hard by Drought
BURUNDI: UN envoy ends tour of duty, outlines nation's challenges
BURUNDI: Thousands affected by drought return home
Burundi's Roman Catholic Church To Conduct Wedding Ceremonies Only For Couples Who Receive HIV Tests
BURUNDI: Catholic Church demands proof of HIV testing before marriage
BURUNDI: Country's former breadbasket faces chronic hunger
BURUNDI: Gov't receives pledges of monetary support for post-war recovery
BURUNDI: Government sets up food security fund
BURUNDI: Homes, schools for returnees inaugurated
Burundi Denies it is Against Donor Forum to Discuss Aid
BURUNDI: Government rejects UN envoy's proposal on donor forum
BURUNDI: Gov't in aid plea for the drought-stricken
BURUNDI: France grants 5.1 million euros to support education, security
BURUNDI: Year in Brief: Burundi 2005 - A chronology of key events
BURUNDI: Heavy rains displace 1,500 in Bujumbura Rural
BURUNDI: Government needs US $75 million to mitigate drought
BURUNDI: Repatriations below target, UN agency says
BURUNDI: Drought kills 120 as thousands flee
BURUNDI: Rebel group continues to threaten peace, development
BURUNDI: UN appeals for US $128m in humanitarian aid for 2006
BURUNDI: Germany grants Bujumbura 9.5 million euros to fight poverty
BURUNDI: World Bank pledges additional $170 million for projects
BURUNDI: AIDS groups have soldiers in their sights
BURUNDI: Belgium pledges to increase development aid
BURUNDI: New debt relief from African Development Bank
BURUNDI: UN agencies warn of looming food crisis
UN urged to focus on humanitarian needs in Burundi
BURUNDI: Dropping water level threatens port of Bujumbura
BURUNDI: UNHCR warns of funds shortage in refugee repatriation
BURUNDI: UNICEF in drive to reduce HIV/AIDS prevalence in children
BURUNDI: 3,000 Rwandans seek refuge in the north
BURUNDI: Donor shortfall means basic needs not being met
BURUNDI-TANZANIA: 1,200 Burundian refugees return as transit camp closes
BURUNDI: Belgium grants 3.8 million euros for good governance
BURUNDI: NGO receives 488,953 euro to repatriate teachers, pupils
BURUNDI-TANZANIA: Returnees from Tanzania increase dramatically
BURUNDI: World Bank announces US $1.5 billion in debt relief
BURUNDI: Angry displaced families demand land
BURUNDI: New call for free child education
BURKINA FASO: Government distributes cut-price grain to help ease hunger
BURUNDI-RWANDA: Minister scoffs at criticism over "forced repatriation"
BURUNDI: Thousands displaced in Bubanza
BURUNDI-RWANDA: Transit camp closed, "asylum seekers" repatriated
BURUNDI: Report cases of sexual abuse by UN staff, envoy urges
BURUNDI: 50,000 displaced people fear returning home
BURUNDI-RWANDA: Asylum seekers intimidated to return home, UN agency says
Rwandan Asylum Seekers Say They Were Beaten By Burundi Military
BURUNDI-RWANDA: Hundreds of Rwandans returning from Burundi
BURUNDI: Death sentence for killers of WHO official
BURUNDI: New health projects for women and children
BURUNDI: NGO helps 68,000 households acquire seeds
BURUNDI: Nurses suspend month-long strike
BURUNDI: UN agency says it will repatriate 150,000 refugees
BURUNDI: Annan recommends dual inquiries on genocide
BURUNDI: Refugee agency receives OPEC funding for reintegration
BURUNDI: Poor-country status could bring IMF debt relief
BURUNDI: Two million people face food shortage, UN agency says
BURUNDI: Health services paralysed as nurses' strike continues
BURUNDI: Environmental causes behind food shortages in northern Kirundo
BURUNDI: Outpatients suffer as nurses begin strike to demand better terms
BURUNDI-RWANDA: Hundreds flee tension, food shortages
BURUNDI: Hunger kills 20 in Karuzi, parliamentarians say
BURUNDI: Ex-rebels die of hunger in cantonment site
BURUNDI: Tension as cattle destroy crops in Cibitoke
BURUNDI: Farmers decry eviction from forest reserve
BURUNDI: NGO launches centre for vulnerable children
WFP Tackles Food Crisis in Northern Burundi
BURUNDI: Medical charity to reopen its cholera treatment centre
BURUNDI: Severity of food shortage in two provinces made clearer
Burundi Introduces Famine Tax to Ease Country's Hunger Victims
BURUNDI: 2004 chronology of events
BURUNDI: Maternity services suspended in private health centres
BURUNDI: Thousands of IDPs return home
BURUNDI: UN peacekeepers suspended for sexual misconduct
BURUNDI: Mother and child health campaign begins
BURUNDI: Landmines keep killing two years after ceasefire
BURUNDI: Demobilisation phase launched, targeting 650 children
BURUNDI: Ex-rebels complain of poor living conditions in cantonment camp
BURUNDI: Returnees go hungry, remain homeless in Ruyigi
BURUNDI: Cholera hits IDPs after heavy rains
BURUNDI-DRC: Peace continues to elude region as humanitarians seek US $102.32 million for 2005 projects
BURUNDI: Batwa youth want more access to land, education and health
BURUNDI: Diseases rife in cantonment camps
BURUNDI: Nurses resume work but threaten to strike again
BURUNDI: Nurses go on strike over poor work conditions
BURUNDI: Housing efforts 'a drop in the ocean'
BURUNDI: Japan assists IDPs, returnees
Food situation in Burundi remains dire
BURUNDI: Meningitis outbreak in the north
BURUNDI-DRC: Food aid for refugees hard to come by
BURUNDI: Campaign to increase breastfeeding
BURUNDI: New initiative to curb AIDS spread
BURUNDI: Ailing health care system gets boast for UN agencies
U.N. Agencies Join Forces To Provide Health Care To Burundians
BURUNDI: UN food agency assists war-affected civilians, despite insecurity
BURUNDI: ECHO funds water supply in southern province
BURUNDI-DRC: UN agency coping with Congolese refugee influx
BURUNDI-DRC: Aid reaches Congolese refugees
BURUNDI: 800 to receive free eye care operations
BURUNDI-DRC: Focus on World Refugee Day - Burundians leaving camps in droves
BAMAKO, 17 June (IRIN) - Hawa Drame, known to her friends and colleagues as “Madame Refuse,” sifts through the rubbish on a dump in the Malian capital Bamako for rags and old clothes that she can recycle and sell in order to feed herself and her four chil
BURUNDI: Focus on street children
BURUNDI: UN refugee agency begins operations through new crossing point
BURUNDI: Refugees, IDPs facing psychological trauma, agency says
BURUNDI: Sharp drop in number of displaced persons
BURUNDI: 964 children demobilised since January, official says
BURUNDI: HIV-positive people demand protective laws
BURUNDI: Plea for aid for war-displaced in Kabezi
BURUNDI: FAO, government report on refugee returnees
BURUNDI: World Vision to build homes for returnees
BURUNDI: Returnees stage sit-in to demand food, shelter
BURUNDI-TANZANIA: UN agency to help reintegrate refugees, official says
BURUNDI: Medical personnel trained on prevention of mother-to-child HIV infection
BURUNDI: Focus on displaced pygmies
BURUNDI: WFP distributes food to war-displaced Kabezi residents
BURUNDI: First lady launches HIV/AIDS initiative
BURUNDI: UN agencies act to avert famine in the northwest
BURUNDI: NGO launches US $5.5 million rehabilitation programme
WFP Worried About Thousands Without Food Access In Burundi
BURUNDI: GTZ resumes bilateral cooperation with Bujumbura
BURUNDI: Upsurge in fighting hampers food delivery, warns WFP
BURUNDI: Kinama storm victims still waiting for aid
BURUNDI: 93 cases of cholera in Rumonge
Burundi Must Take Action Against Rape, Rights Group Says
BURUNDI: Germany gives 7.5 million for water, refugees, HIV/AIDS control
BURUNDI: Cholera threat as water shortage hits commune
BURUNDI: Army demobilises 29 child soldiers
BURUNDI: Focus on availability of ARVs
BURUNDI-TANZANIA: EC aid for vulnerable displaced people
BURUNDI: Plea for hunger-stricken residents of Kirundo
BURUNDI: Ex-rebels decry poor hygiene in assembly points
BURUNDI: Vaccination campaign targets 275,000 babies
BURUNDI: Chronology 2003
BURUNDI: Cholera breaks out in the northwest
BURUNDI: Oxfam-GB to close its country office due to insecurity
BURUNDI: Lack of medical facilities threatens new malaria treatment
BURUNDI: HIV-positive civil servants to pay 20 percent for ARVs
BURUNDI: Grappling with the effects of war on young lives
BURUNDI: NGO sensitises soldiers and former rebels against rape
BURUNDI: Agriculture, health main target sectors of UN funds appeal
BURUNDI: Free anti-AIDS drug plan announced
BURUNDI: HIV/AIDS patients may get free drugs by December
BURUNDI: Uganda's AIDS strategy to be copied
BURUNDI: Government launches new malaria medicine
BURUNDI: Four suspects arrested for death of WHO official
BURUNDI: FAO gives 1 million people farming inputs
BURUNDI-TANZANIA: Focus on secondary school education in refugee camps
BURUNDI-TANZANIA: FOCUS on using film to improve lives of refugees
BURUNDI: CRS launches agricultural recovery campaign
BURUNDI: FAO launches 2004 agricultural campaign
BURUNDI: Diseases ''remain major cause of disability, mortality''
BURUNDI: Seed production conference to be held in Bujumbura
BURUNDI: WFP begins food distribution to 15,000 IDPs
BURUNDI: EC signs Country Strategy Paper for 2003-2007
BURUNDI: Thousands displaced by rebel fighting need aid, official says
BURUNDI: UN food agency assists 20,800 displaced in Bubanza Province
BURUNDI: Landmines continue to kill, maim every year
BURUNDI: FAO increases aid to 125,000 people in Kayanza Province
BURUNDI: Thousands of displaced need urgent aid, officials say
BURUNDI: EU grants €172 million for development
BURUNDI: Burundi youth centre giving hope for the future
BURUNDI: Food distribution to CNDD-FDD rebels resumes
BURUNDI: NGO pulls staff out of Kayanza Province
BURUNDI: Health Ministry denies meningitis death toll
BURUNDI: WFP finds major food insecurity in Kayanza province
BURUNDI: UN agencies urge one-week ceasefire for health campaign
BURUNDI: More than 890 children reunited with their families in Bujumbura
BURUNDI: UN agency steps up efforts to feed thousands of displaced civilians
