Bujumbura — Burundi is to boost food production, private sector growth, education, health and energy availability as part of a four-year poverty reduction strategy, President Pierre Nkurunziza ...

Located in eastern Africa, Burundi is a mountainous country with a population of over 13.4 million people. Although the country has an unemployment rate of just 1%, it ranks 5th in the list with a ...

Children are bearing the brunt of Burundi's political turmoil, agencies said, as rising prices and falling incomes in the tiny cenral African country make buying food a struggle. Political violence, a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Burundi has successfully completed its first review under a poverty reduction plan with the International Monetary Fund and won the release of $9.9 million under the program, ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Political violence, a shrinking economy and biting aid cuts are worsening poverty and hunger across Burundi, amid reports that thousands of people are internally ...