A report on Burundi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community and Swahili language

Swahili in Arabic script—memorial plate at the Askari Monument, Dar es Salaam (1927)
Although originally written with the Arabic script, Swahili is now written in a Latin alphabet introduced by Christian missionaries and colonial administrators. The text shown here is the Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer.
Flag of the Kingdom of Burundi (1962–1966).
View of Leopoldville Station and Port in 1884
From left to right: President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, and President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania during the eighth EAC summit in Arusha, November 2006.
Swahili in Arabic script on the clothes of a girl in German East Africa (ca. early 1900s)
Independence Square and monument in Bujumbura.
A 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool discovered at Olduvai Gorge and on display at the British Museum.
1908 photograph of a married Christian couple.
EAC heads in 2009. From left to right: Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), Mwai Kibaki (Kenya), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania), Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi).
Loxodonta africana elephants frolic in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, 2012.
Belligerents of the Second Congo War. Burundi backed the rebels.
Force Publique soldiers in the Belgian Congo in 1918. At its peak, the Force Publique had around 19,000 Congolese soldiers, led by 420 Belgian officers.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the 2006 EAC summit. Rwanda joined the EAC on 1 July 2007.
View of the capital city Bujumbura in 2006.
A 1572 depiction of the portuguese city of Kilwa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The leader of ABAKO, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, first democratically elected President of Congo-Léopoldville
Three EAC countries border Lake Victoria.
Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi in 2005–2020.
Patrice Lumumba, first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Congo-Léopoldville, was murdered by Belgian-supported Katangan separatists in 1961
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, located in Tanzania.
Embassy of Burundi in Brussels
Battle during the Maji Maji Rebellion against German colonial rule in 1905.
Mobutu Sese Seko and Richard Nixon in Washington, D.C., 1973.
Diani Beach, Kilifi County, Kenya.
Map of Burundi.
The Arusha Declaration Monument
Mobutu with the Dutch Prince Bernhard in Kinshasa in 1973
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Hippos at Kibira National Park in the Northwest of Burundi
Wildebeest migration in the Serengeti
Belligerents of the Second Congo War
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A proportional representation of Burundi exports, 2019
Tanzania map of Köppen climate classification
Refugees in the Congo
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Historical development of GDP per capita
The Masai giraffe is Tanzania's national animal
People fleeing their villages due to fighting between FARDC and rebel groups, North Kivu, 2012
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Graphical depiction of Burundi's product exports in 28 colour-coded categories in 2009.
The semi-autonomous Zanzibar Archipelago
Government troops near Goma during the M23 rebellion in May 2013
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Fishermen on Lake Tanganyika.
Regions of Tanzania
DR Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi with neighbouring Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso in 2020; both wear face masks due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bujumbura International Airport terminal in Bujumbura
Tanzanian ambassador to Russia Jaka Mwambi presenting his credentials to the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
The map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Bicycles are a popular means of transport in Burundi
Tanzanian Embassy in West End, Washington, D.C., USA
Democratic Republic of the Congo map of Köppen climate classification
Men in colourful dresses and drums
FIB Tanzanian special forces during training
Ituri Rainforest
Children in Bujumbura, Burundi
A proportional representation of Tanzania exports, 2019
Mount Nyiragongo, which last erupted in 2021.
Drums from Gitega.
Historical development of real GDP per capita in Tanzania, since 1950
Salonga National Park.
Football in Burundi.
Tea fields in Tukuyu
Masisi Territory
Carolus Magnus School in Burundi. The school benefits from the campaign "Your Day for Africa" by Aktion Tagwerk.
Nyerere Bridge in Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam
Lake Kivu in North Kivu province
The snowcapped Uhuru Peak
Bas-Congo landscape
One of the main trunk roads
An Okapi
Zanzibar harbour
A male western gorilla
Domestic expenditure on research in Southern Africa as a percentage of GDP, 2012 or closest year. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 20.3
Hippopotami
A Tanzanian woman cooks Pilau rice dish wearing traditional Kanga.
Joseph Kabila was President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from January 2001 to January 2019.
Farmers using a rice harvester to harvest rice in Igunga District, Tanzania
President Joseph Kabila with U.S. President Barack Obama in August 2014
Example of a World Food Programme parcel
FARDC soldiers on patrol in Ituri province
Researchers (HC) in Southern Africa per million inhabitants, 2013 or closest year
A group of demobilized child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Scientific publications per million inhabitants in SADC countries in 2014. Source: UNESCO Science Report (2015), data from Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded
A proportional representation of Democratic Republic of the Congo exports, 2019
The Hadza live as hunter-gatherers.
Change in per capita GDP of Congo, 1950–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars.
A carved door with Arabic calligraphy in Zanzibar
Rough diamonds ≈1 to 1.5 mm in size from DR Congo.
Nkrumah Hall at the University of Dar es Salaam
DR Congo's Human Development Index scores, 1970–2010.
Development of life expectancy
Collecting firewood in Basankusu.
Tanzanian woman harvest tea leaves
Train from Lubumbashi arriving in Kindu on a newly refurbished line.
Judith Wambura (Lady Jaydee) is a popular Bongo Flava recording singer.
Map of rail network
A Tingatinga painting
Major Bantu languages in the Congo
National Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
Kongo youth and adults in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
St Joseph's Catholic cathedral, Zanzibar
Amani festival in Goma
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha
Family in Rutshuru, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
East African Legislative Assembly in Arusha
The population pyramid of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tanzanian Ngoma group
Our Lady of Peace Cathedral in Bukavu
A classroom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Development of life expectancy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Population fleeing their villages due to fighting between FARDC and rebels groups, Sake North Kivu 30 April 2012
A Hemba male statue
Stade des Martyrs in Kinshasa.
The Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Lubumbashi

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi (Repuburika y’Uburundi, ; Swahili: Jamuhuri ya Burundi; French: République du Burundi, or ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley where the African Great Lakes region and East Africa converge.

- Burundi

The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation composed of seven countries in the Great Lakes region of East Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republics of Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Uganda.

- East African Community

It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border.

- Burundi

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.

- Tanzania

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.

- Democratic Republic of the Congo

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.

- Swahili language

It is a member of the United Nations, Non-Aligned Movement, African Union, East African Community, COMESA, Southern African Development Community, and the Economic Community of Central African States.

- Democratic Republic of the Congo

The country does not have a de jure official language, although the national language is Swahili.

- Tanzania

Kiswahili, English and French are designated as the official languages of the EAC, with Swahili designated for development as the lingua franca of the community.

- East African Community

In addition, Burundi, along with Rwanda, joined the East African Community in 2007.

- Burundi

Tanzania is a member of many international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU), East African Community (EAC), and Southern African Development Community (SADC) among many others.

- Tanzania

Approximately 242 languages are spoken in the country, of which four have the status of national languages: Kituba (Kikongo), Lingala, Tshiluba, and Swahili.

- Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Rwanda

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Landlocked 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.

A reconstruction of the ancient King's Palace at Nyanza
Juvénal Habyarimana, president from 1973 to 1994
Human skulls at the Nyamata Genocide Memorial
Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Chamber of Deputies building
Provinces of Rwanda
The Kagera and Ruvubu rivers, part of the upper Nile
Lake and volcano in the Virunga Mountains
Volcanoes National Park is the home of the largest population of Mountain Gorillas in the world.
Giraffe in Akagera National Park
Estimated development of real GDP per capita in Rwanda, since 1950
Coffee beans drying in Maraba. Coffee is one of Rwanda's major cash crops.
Mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park
Rural water pump
Rural children
Children in a Rwandan primary school, using laptops supplied by the One Laptop Per Child program
Butaro Hospital at Burera, Northern Province
Historical development of life expectancy in Rwanda
Roman Catholic church in Rwamagana
Traditional Rwandan intore dancers
Rwandan woven agaseke basket
Adrien Niyonshuti, "one of the most famous people in Rwanda", competing in the cross-country mountain biking event at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Topography of Rwanda
Graphical depiction of Rwanda's product exports.
Rwanda produced 2.6 million tons of banana in 2019, its largest cash crop.
Rwanda electricity production by source
A plate of ugali and cabbage.

Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The country is a member of the African Union, the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, COMESA, OIF and the East African Community.

Swahili, the lingua franca of the East African Community, is also spoken by some as a second language, particularly returned refugees from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and those who live along the border with the DRC.

Image of the region between Lake Victoria (on the right) and Lakes Edward, Kivu and Tanganyika (from north to south) showing dense vegetation (bright green) and fires (red).

East Africa

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Eastern subregion of the African continent.

Eastern subregion of the African continent.

Image of the region between Lake Victoria (on the right) and Lakes Edward, Kivu and Tanganyika (from north to south) showing dense vegetation (bright green) and fires (red).
The Bab-el-Mandeb crossing in the Red Sea: now some 12 miles (20 km) wide, narrower in prehistory.
Early Iron Age findings in East and Southern Africa
Map of British East Africa in 1911

Due to the historical Omani Empire and colonial territories of the British East Africa Protectorate and German East Africa, the term East Africa is often (especially in the English language) used to specifically refer to the area now comprising the three countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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.

With its original speech community centered on the coastal parts of Tanzania (particularly Zanzibar) and Kenya—a seaboard referred to as the Swahili Coast—the Bantu Swahili language contains many Arabic loan-words as a consequence of these interactions.