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Burundi starts COVID jabs; just North Korea, Eritrea remain

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZAOctober 18, 2021 GMT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — One of the world’s last three countries to administer COVID-19 vaccines started giving out doses on Monday as the East African nation of Burundi launched its national campaign.

Grenade attacks in Burundi kill 2, wound scores

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZASeptember 21, 2021 GMT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Burundi’s government said Tuesday that two people had been killed and 102 others wounded in grenade attacks in the commercial capital, Bujumbura.

No one has claimed responsibility, and it was not clear who was behind the attacks on Monday that Prime Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni alleged were “terrorist acts” by people who seek to profit from insecurity in the East African nation.

In Burundi, fears that next year’s vote will be bloody again

By SAM MEDNICKJuly 28, 2019 GMT

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — It made history as the first country to quit the International Criminal Court...