ISS Today: Do global actors have what it takes to help Burundi?

ISS Today: Do global actors have what it takes to help Burundi?

Burundi’s ongoing political instability highlights the stark divide between global conflict prevention rhetoric and practice.   By Priyal Singh for ISS TODAY.  First published by ISS Today • Since Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza announced that he would run for a third term in early 2015, political instability across the country has tested the limits of […]

TFF PressInfo # 349 – Burundi’s crisis and the world’s inability to prevent violence

TFF PressInfo # 349 – Burundi’s crisis and the world’s inability to prevent violence

  By Jan Oberg Lund, Sweden, November 9, 2015 • The big – not great – powers of the world have embassies everywhere, plenty of intelligence services, special forces on the ground and satellites in space. They can even hit and kill individuals they don’t like. They can intervene here and there and everywhere – […]

“Its God’s plan I stay in power till 2034”

“Its God’s plan I stay in power till 2034”

  Via africanindy.com December 15, 2017 • The Burundi president, whose re-election in 2015 triggered a political and economic crisis, said on national television yesterday that the country was sovereign and that changing its constitution was part of its sovereignty. He warned all those who wanted to challenge the constitutional changes that they would face […]