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Former Burundi rebel leader proposed for president (11.07.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) The former leader of the main Burundian rebel movement has been selected by members of his political party as their candidate in the presidential election to be held next month. Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the Hutu Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), 41, is almost certain to win as his party swept the board in recent local and parliamentary elections which will give it a decisive majority among those choosing the president.
Tutsi party accepts poll (07.07.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) The main Tutsi party, Uprona, which governed Burundi for 30 years, has accepted the results of Monday's elections, won by former Hutu rebels.
Ex-Hutu rebels win poll (05.07.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) Burundi's former Hutu rebel group have won a parliamentary majority after Monday's elections, officials say. With most ballots counted, the FDD have between 60% and 80% of the vote and are assured of victory, they say. ... The MPs choose a new president in August, and correspondents say he is likely to be from the FDD.
Legislative elections held with only minor incidents (04.07.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Burundians took a major step on Monday towards ending the post-conflict transition period by electing the 100 members of the country's national assembly with only minor incidents. There were some irregularities, the head of the UN Mission in Burundi's (ONUB) Electoral Unit, Ahmadou Seck, said on Monday at a news conference in Bujumbura, the capital. He said unlike the 3 June municipal elections, no polling stations were disrupted.
CNDD-FDD confirmed winner of communal polls (24.06.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Burundi's Independent National Electoral Commission, or CENI, released on Thursday the final results of communal polls held countrywide on 3 June, confirming the outright victory of the country's former main rebel group, the CNDD-FDD, now a political party.
Government pleased with UN resolution on truth commission (22.06.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) The government of Burundi has welcomed the UN Security Council's adoption of a resolution to create a mixed truth commission and a special court to prosecute war crimes and human rights violations committed during decades of civil war in the country, Justice Minister Didace Kiganahe said on Tuesday. … Once operational, the truth commission and the special chamber would fall under Burundi's judicial system.
Violence, tension as parliamentary poll campaigns get under way (20.06.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Campaigning for legislative elections in Burundi entered its third day on Monday, already marked by tension and violence following the killing of three people, among them two candidates, in the capital, Bujumbura. A woman and the two candidates, members of President Domitien Ndayizeye's FRODEBU party, died in a grenade blast on Saturday in a bar in Kamenge neighbourhood, in the northern part of the capital. They were from a political rally.
Rebels kill eight in attack on church in western Burundi: army (17.06.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Burundian rebels fired through the windows of a church, killing the priest and seven of the praying congregation, an army spokesman said Friday. Ten civilians were killed in western Burundi and five injured in two separate attacks by the rebel National Liberation Forces (FNL) on Thursday, the army said. ... The FNL is the only one of Burundi's seven rebel groups not to have signed onto the peace process … .
Burundi approves truth commission (16.06.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) Burundi has approved a United Nations plan for a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate more than four decades of ethnic conflict. Justice Minister Didace Kiganahe said the proposals reflected the concerns of his people to establish what happened and to punish the guilty. ... The next step is for a UN Security Council resolution to approve the plan. Then the UN and Burundi would negotiate and work together to set up the commission.
EU Election Observation Mission deployed for legislative elections (15.06.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) The European Commission has deployed an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) for the legislative elections in Burundi scheduled to take place on 4 July 2005. ... The EU EOM is led by Alain Hutchinson, Member of the European Parliament. ... A core team of eight election experts … will arrive in Bujumbura this week, to be joined by 10 long-term observers, … . A total of 60 short-term observers will arrive just before election day to observe voting, counting and the tabulation of results.
Thousands displaced in Bubanza (14.06.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) An estimated 23,000 people have fled their homes in the last week in the western Burundi's Bubanza Province because of fighting between government soldiers and rebels of the Forces nationales de liberation (FNL), a provincial official said on Tuesday. ... Many of displaced people are in the villages of Musenyi, Gahwazi, Nyamabere and Gifugwe in Mpanda Commune near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rebel FNL, government officials begin ceasefire talks (10.06.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Delegates from the Burundian government and the rebel Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) began talks on Friday on how to implement a ceasefire agreement, after almost a week of delays. ... FNL is Burundi's only rebel group to continue fighting. All other former rebel groups have signed peace agreements with the transitional government and have since joined transitional institutions.
Ex-Rebellen gewinnen Wahl (08.06.2005)
(Quelle: taz) In Burundi hat die größte einstige Hutu-Rebellenbewegung die Kommunalwahlen vom vergangenen Freitag gewonnen. ... Die bisher größte Hutu-geführte Partei Frodebu (Front für Demokratie in Burundi), die im Rahmen des laufenden Friedensprozesses den Staatspräsidenten stellt, landete weit abgeschlagen und sprach von Wahlbetrug und bewaffneter Einschüchterung der Wähler.
War-torn Burundi heads to the polls for critical municipal elections (01.06.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Just over a decade since Burundi plunged into bloody ethnic turmoil, voters in this tiny central African nation head to the polls this week for local elections seen as a key test of stability. In a country long riven by tribal rivalry between minority Tutsis and majority Hutus, Friday's election of municipal councillors -- the first in a series of polls -- will be a bellwether for the prospects of concluding a five-year-old peace process.
UN peacekeeping mission’s mandate extended until beginning of December (31.05.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations Security Council today extended the mandate of its peacekeeping UN Operation in Burundi (ONUB) for six months until 1 December and called on the African Great Lakes country’s political actors to try harder to ensure the success of their political transition, national reconciliation and long-term stability.
UN steps up military presence ahead of Friday poll (31.05.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) The UN Mission in Burundi, known as ONUB, has stepped up its military presence across the country ahead of communal elections set for Friday, an official told IRIN on Tuesday. 'Anyone here can see there is a lot more UN armoured vehicles and UN troops on the street than there was before,' Penangnini Toure, the ONUB spokesman, said in the capital, Bujumbura.
Burundi army to relaunch attacks (25.05.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) The Burundian army has announced it will resume attacks on FNL rebels, who signed a ceasefire a week ago. Five people were injured, including three soldiers, after at least 11 mortar shells were fired on Bujumbura on Tuesday night. The army said the attack proved the FNL, the last rebel movement still fighting, was not committed to peace.
Annan recommends extending UN mission until December (23.05.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) Progress has been made in Burundi's peace process, but it is not yet irreversible and the peacebuilding United Nations Office in Burundi (ONUB) should maintain its strength of more than 5,000 personnel as its mandate is extended for another six months until December, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommends.
Burundi's post-war election campaign begins (19.05.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) The first presidential election in a small central African country torn since 1993 by civil war between rebels of the Hutu majority and an army long dominated by minority Tutsis will be an indirect one under a new constitution that went to a referendum on February 28. … Accords already reached among other political and armed movements provide for equal roles for Hutus and Tutsis alike in the armed and security forces, the legislature and the administration.
Waffenstillstand in Burundi (17.05.2005)
(Quelle: taz) Die Regierung von Burundi hat mit der letzten verbliebenen Hutu-Rebellengruppe des Landes ein Friedensabkommen geschlossen. Präsident Domitien Ndayizeye und der Chef der Nationalen Befreiungskräfte (FNL), Agathon Rwasa, verkündeten am Sonntag in der tansanischen Stadt Daressalam 'die sofortige Einstellung der Feindseligkeiten'.
CNDD-FDD against method of civilian disarmament (13.05.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Burundi's former main rebel movement, the Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie-Forces pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD-FDD), is against the way a national programme aimed at disarming civilians is being carried out, an official said on Friday. 'We need to associate all the partners involved in the process and, secondly, it has to be done under the supervision of the UN Mission in Burundi,' Ramadhan Karenga, the CNDD-FDD spokesman, said.
'Breakthrough' for peace (12.05.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) A new interior minister has been appointed in Burundi - removing a major obstacle to the peace process. Jean-Marie Ngendahayo, a Tutsi, was named by President Domitien Ndayizeye, who backed down after originally saying the post was reserved for a Hutu. The Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) say they will now return to the power-sharing government.
President issues decree to disarm civilians (06.05.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye signed a decree on Wednesday creating a new programme to disarm civilians. The decree states that a commission is to be set up to disarm 'all persons residing in Burundi other than police and defence forces in possession of weapons and ammunition'.
Last rebel standing wants peace (02.05.2005)
(Quelle: allAfrica) The last rebel leader still fighting in Burundi, Agathon Rwasa, emerged from the bush this week to begin preparing for negotiations in Dar es Salaam to join the peace process. Those talks could begin as early as next week.
SA troops to stay longer (02.05.2005)
(Quelle: allAfrica) South Africa will extend its deployment of troops in Burundi until March next year to assist the Great Lakes country towards attaining democracy. Cabinet also approved the deployment of additional troops to strife-torn Sudan as part of the African Union Mission in the north African country.
Political parties reject electoral calendar (29.04.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) A group of 20 Burundian political parties said on Thursday they would not accept the revised electoral calendar issued recently by the Independent Electoral Commission. 'The change of the electoral calendar by the commission is unconstitutional,' Terence Nsanze, the leader of the Alliance Burundo Africain pour le Salut, said on behalf of the parties on at a news conference in Bujumbura, the capital.
Hutu-Rebellen verlassen Regierung (28.04.2005)
(Quelle: taz) … Weil die größte Hutu-Rebellion des Landes den Posten des Innenministers, der ihr im laufenden Friedensprozess zusteht, nicht mit einem Tutsi besetzen darf, ist sie aus der Allparteienregierung ausgetreten. Damit stürzt sie den Friedensprozess in dem kleinen Land im Afrika der Großen Seen in eine Krise.
Rebels vow truce once peace talks start as one killed in new attack (27.04.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) The leader of Burundi's last Hutu active rebel group on Wednesday pledged to stop fighting as soon as peace talks that are expected to begin as early as next week open with the government. But the truce offer from the National Liberation Forces (FNL) came just hours after the group launched a new attack on the outskirts of Bujumbura in which one of its fighters was killed and several government troops wounded.
Thousands disarmed since December, UN official says (26.04.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Burundi has disarmed and demobilised 7,282 former combatants since December 2004 under an ongoing programme that includes their reintegration into society, a military spokesman for the UN Mission in Burundi (ONUB) has said. ... The DDR plan is scheduled to run for four years, Diop said, with the formation of an initial 45,000-member National Defence Force, which would later be reduced to 30,000 and finally to 25,000 troops.
New timetable for poll (22.04.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) African regional leaders have extended the mandate of Burundi's transitional president by four months and said elections must be held by 19 August. President Domitien Ndayizeye's term of office was due to end on Friday, which, under a peace deal, should have coincided with elections.
African Great Lakes leaders to hold emergency summit on Burundi (20.04.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Leaders from Africa's Great Lakes region are to meet in Uganda this week for an emergency summit on the halting peace process in Burundi, officials said Wednesday. The meeting, to be held Friday in Entebbe, will be hosted by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who chairs a regional peace initiative for the tiny central African country, the Ugandan foreign ministry said. It aims to extend a transitional period that was supposed to have ended with new elections on April 22.
Top UN official "shocked" over Burundi poll delay (15.04.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) A top U.N. official said on Friday she was 'shocked' at delays in holding Burundi's first elections in 12 years, saying a date for the contest should be set as quickly as possible. Burundi had been due to hold general elections in April as part of a peace deal to end a decade of civil war in the central African country, but the polls have been postponed partly due to wrangling over electoral law among legislators. 'I personally don't understand some of the amendments made by the national assembly on the electoral law. These are procedures which can only delay the electoral process and which can be interpreted as a political interference in a technical process,' said Carolyn McAskie, head of Burundi's U.N. mission.
Burundi refugees stream into Rwanda fearing attacks (14.04.2005)
(Quelle: SABC News) Thousands of ethnic Tutsi refugees from Burundi have fled across the border into Rwanda, fearing attacks by Hutu militants ahead of landmark polls expected later this year, officials said today. The exodus of more than 4 000 people since December, according to Rwandan authorities, underlines lingering tensions between Burundi's Tutsis and majority Hutus despite the implementation of a peace deal to end a decade of civil war. Refugees at camps in Rwanda say the former members of the Forces for Defence of Democracy (FDD) Hutu rebel group who are due to be integrated into the army under the peace deal are threatening voters in northern Burundi before the polls.
We are ready for peace talks, FNL rebels say (12.04.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Burundi's remaining rebel group, the Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) led by Agathon Rwasa, said on Tuesday it was willing to stop fighting government troops. 'Our movement is ready to enter into serious negotiations with the interim government and work out a plan for sustainable peace in Burundi,' Ibrahim Ntakirutimana, an FNL representative, said in the Tanzanian commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. ... Ntakirutimana had led an FNL delegation to Dar es Salaam to meet Tanzanian government leaders and to present the group's position on the Burundi peace process.
EU criticises electoral body over poll delay (12.04.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) The European Union envoy to the Great Lakes region, Aldo Ayello, has said that it is 'unacceptable' for Burundi's National Independent Electoral Commission, or CENI, to continue to delay publishing the electoral timetable. 'We are not satisfied at all with the work of the commission,' Ayello told reporters on Friday in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura. He said the international community had lauded the commission for the way it organised a referendum in February on the country’s new constitution - but was now urging the commission to proceed with organising elections. The commission, he added, was running the risk of undermining the transition process.
UN Agency says it will repatriate 150,000 refugees (01.04.2005)
(Quelle: allAfrica) The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expects to repatriate up to 150,000 Burundian refugees by the end of 2005, an official of the agency said on Thursday. The agency's public relations officer, Catherine Lune Grayson, told a news conference in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, that out of 8,524 refugees who have returned home so far this year, the agency had assisted 7,776 of them.
UN mission recommends truth commission plus special chamber in Burundi's courts (29.03.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) A United Nations special mission mandated to recommend measures Burundi might take to deal with perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes has recommended a non-judicial truth commission and a prosecuting special chamber within Burundi's court system. ... The proposed truth commission would be composed of five commissioners, three of them international and two of them national, … . The special chamber, also of mixed national and international composition, would have the competence to prosecute those bearing the greatest responsibility for serious crimes, it says.
Burundi on track in peace process, UN says (21.03.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) Burundi is successfully following its long peace process after decades of sporadic conflict, but a rebel hold-out around the capital is causing donors to be wary of providing humanitarian support or investment funds, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for that African Great Lakes country said today. 'Without sounding overly positive, because one always has to be cautious in a post-conflict situation, my own assessment is that Burundi is well on track in its very long, ongoing peace process,' Carolyn McAskie told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York.
Burundi delays parliamentary elections (19.03.2005)
(Quelle: Washington Post) Burundi has indefinitely postponed parliamentary elections scheduled for later this month, the head of the electoral commission said, explaining that the necessary laws have yet to be passed.
Electoral commission's proposal to postpone elections is rejected (16.03.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday rejected a proposal from Burundi's electoral commission to postpone the country's final round of elections by two months, a senior Ugandan government official told IRIN.
UN conducts inquiry into alleged sexual abuse by peacekeepers in Burundi (14.03.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations, pursuing its zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeeping operations and mission personnel around the world, announced today that it was conducting an inquiry into alleged sexual abuse of minors by troops in Burundi.
Burundi government denies plan for talks with remaining rebels (05.03.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Burundi's government on Saturday denied a plan announced by diplomats for talks with the country's recalcitrant National Liberation Forces (FNL) rebels in neighbouring Tanzania. … Six of the country's seven rebel movements have signed a peace accord with the government and are now part of the transition, leaving out the FNL, which is still fighting in the country's western region of Bujumbura-Rural, one of Burundi's 17 provinces.
Nation clears constitutional referendum, looks ahead to presidential poll (01.03.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Based on interim results announced on Tuesday, 91.2 percent of Burundi's estimated three million registered voters polled 'Yes' for a new constitution that slashes the imbalance of power between the minority Tutsis and the majority Hutus. … The key elements in the constitution are its power sharing arrangements. The president, to be elected by parliament from the winning political party, must have as one of his deputies someone of a different ethnic group and political party. In addition, the new constitution provides for a 60-percent Hutu 40-percent Tutsi representation in all institutions of government, except the army and the police where the ratio is 50-50.
Tutsi-dominated parties call for a 'no' vote in referendum (21.02.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Three Tutsi-dominated parties in Burundi, including the main Union pour le progress national (UPRONA), have called on Burundians to vote against the country's proposed post-transitional constitution during a referendum set for 28 February, terming it exclusionist and dictatorial. … UPRONA holds that the post-transition constitution was drafted and adopted by Hutu-dominated parties, to the exclusion of the Tutsi-dominated ones.
Wahlkampf beginnt (17.02.2005)
(Quelle: taz) In Burundi, seit 1993 Schauplatz eines Krieges zwischen Tutsi-Militär und Hutu-Rebellen, beginnt der Wahlkampf für ein Verfassungsreferendum und weitere Urnengänge. … Dreimal ist das Referendum bereits verschoben worden, und auch jetzt sind die technischen Probleme mit der Wählerregistrierung noch nicht vollständig behoben. Dennoch hat Anfang dieser Woche der Wahlkampf offiziell eingesetzt, mit der Rückkehr des historischen Hutu-Rebellenführers Leonard Nyangoma aus dem Exil unter dem Jubel tausender seiner Anhänger. Das politische Klima heizt sich auf.
I'll step down after elections, Ndayizeye says (07.02.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye said on Friday that he would abide by the current draft constitution and not run in presidential elections scheduled tentatively for April. 'Our duty is to respect the constitution which states that whoever led the transition period could not run in the first elections,' he said on national television. The announcement ends heated national debate on whether to amend the draft constitution before 28 February when a referendum on it is due.
Burundi constitution vote set but others delayed (24.01.2005)
(Quelle: SABC News) Burundi's independent electoral commission set today a twice-delayed constitutional referendum for February 28, but gave no dates for the crucial presidential and parliamentary polls. The constitutional referendum is seen as vital first step toward the tiny central African country's first democratic elections in a decade, the culmination of a peace agreement designed to end years of ethnic bloodshed.
Reports of flawed voter list leaves transition floundering (24.01.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) With widespread irregularities reported in voter lists that had been publicly posted for 10 days that ended on Sunday, Burundians are increasingly expressing concern that the peace process is now faltering. 'The flaws in the election process and the bickering of politicians are making us lose hope,' Bernard Nsengiyumva, a civil servant in Bujumbura, said. 'There is still no electoral code and we don't know when voting will take place, how it will take place or who will be eligible to take part.'
Renewed fighting displaces thousands in Bujumbura Rural (04.01.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Thousands of civilians have been displaced following fierce fighting on Saturday in Burundi's western province of Bujumbura Rural. … Fighting was reported in the communes of Isale, Nyabiraba and Kanyosha, east of the capital, Bujumbura, between the rebel faction Forces nationales de libération (FNL) of Agathon Rwasa, and a coalition of the Burundian army and troops loyal to Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the former largest rebel faction in the country, the Conseil national de la defense de la democratie-Forces de defense de la democratie (CNDD-FDD).
New national army for Burundians (04.01.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) Burundi's largest armed groups have formed a single national army after more than a decade of war. All but one of the Hutu rebel groups and the Tutsi dominated government army are brought together. … The Burundi Armed Forces will now be known as the National Defence Force. The BBC's Prime Ndikumagenge in Bujumbura says that from now on the term rebel will only apply to the National Liberation Forces (FNL).