A report on Burundi
Landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley where the African Great Lakes region and East Africa converge.
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Rwanda
30 linksLandlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge.
Landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge.
Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
18 linksCountry in Central Africa.
Country in Central Africa.
The DRC is located in sub-Saharan Africa, bordered to the northwest by the Republic of the Congo, to the north by the Central African Republic, to the northeast by South Sudan, to the east by Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, and by Tanzania (across Lake Tanganyika), to the south and southeast by Zambia, to the southwest by Angola, and to the west by the South Atlantic Ocean and the Cabinda exclave of Angola.
Tanzania
12 linksCountry in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
Country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
Pierre Buyoya
11 linksPierre Buyoya (24 November 1949 – 17 December 2020) was a Burundian army officer and politician who served two terms as President of Burundi in 1987 to 1993 and 1996 to 2003 as de facto military dictator.
Hutu
9 linksNative to the African Great Lakes region of Africa.
Native to the African Great Lakes region of Africa.
They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where they form one of the principal ethnic groups alongside the Tutsi and the Great Lakes Twa.
Lake Tanganyika
8 linksAfrican Great Lake.
African Great Lake.
The lake is shared among four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, and Zambia, with Tanzania (46%) and DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake.
Tutsi
8 linksEthnic group of the African Great Lakes region.
Ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region.
They are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic group Hutu and the Pygmy group of the Twa).
Burundian Civil War
7 linksThe Burundian Civil War was a civil war in Burundi lasting from 1993 to 2005.
Swahili language
6 linksNative language of the Waswahili who are found along the East African coast and litoral islands .
Native language of the Waswahili who are found along the East African coast and litoral islands .
Due to concerted efforts by the government of Tanzania, Swahili is one of three official languages (the others being English and French) of the East African Community (EAC) countries, namely Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
East Africa
6 linksEastern subregion of the African continent.
Eastern subregion of the African continent.
Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan are members of the East African Community. The first five are also included in the African Great Lakes region. Burundi and Rwanda are at times also considered to be part of Central Africa.