About 50 people have died in Kenya after a dam burst its banks following heavy rains and flooding, a Red Cross official has said.
People in villages near Mai Mahiu, about 60km (37 miles) from the capital, Nairobi, were swept away as they (...)
The Chief Executive Officer of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), Sultan Al-Marshad, inked 14 new development loan agreements on Thursday with ministers from 12 African nations.
These agreements, totaling over $580 million, aim to finance crucial (...)
At a time when more than 100 armed groups are plaguing communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with grave human rights violations and sexual violence, the UN chief said on Saturday that swift, bolstered efforts must end the chronic (...)
On behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eng. Waleed Al Khereiji, participated here on Friday in the celebration ceremony of Burundi on the occasion of Burundi's 60th (...)
On behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eng. Waleed bin Abdulkarim Al Khuraiji, participated here yesterday in the celebration ceremony of the friendly Republic of (...)
The volunteer medical team of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has concluded its medical campaign to combat blindness and its causes in Bujumbura, Burundi.
During the period from 20 to 26 October 2021, the team examined (...)
Speaking at a Security Council meeting on the situation in Africa's Great Lakes region on Wednesday, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy, Huang Xia, told ambassadors that the countries concerned now stand "at a crossroads".
According to Xia, the (...)
The Burundian Islamic Society has supported a decision taken by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to hold this Hajj season 1441H with limited numbers of pilgrims from various nationalities inside the Kingdom.
In a statement, Grand Mufti of the Republic of (...)
The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) recently signed a loan agreement worth $5.9million with the Burundi government to upgrade a major road connection between the city of Bujumbura and the country's airport. The Arabic Bank (BADEA) and the Burundi (...)
The death of a six-year-old YouTube star from a malaria epidemic in Burundi has spotlighted the growing challenge of combating malaria in a warmer world, health experts said on Tuesday.
Darcy Irakoze - known as Kacaman - who was popular for his (...)
Goalkeeper Mbongeni Mzimela was the unexpected two-goal hero as Platinum Stars of South Africa this weekend booked a CAF Confederation Cup play-offs place.
The 31-year-old converted two penalties in a 3-1 victory over Vipers of Uganda that (...)
An unknown gunman has killed environment minister
Emmanuel Niyonkuru in the conflict-ridden East African nation of
Burundi, a police spokesman said Sunday, according to dpa.
The minister was shot dead with a pistol in the early hours of Sunday in (...)
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza said he may seek a fourth term, if the East African country's citizens
should want him to run for office in 2020, dpa reported.
"If [Burundian citizens] request me to run again for the presidency in 2020, I will (...)
Burundi has rejected the deployment of 228 UN police officers to monitor human rights abuses in the conflict-stricken East African nation, dpa reported.
The country's security force were "in control" and able to ensure citizens' security, government (...)
Around 1,000 people marched through the streets of Burundi's capital on Saturday to protest against a United Nations Security Council decision to send a police contingent to the violence-wracked country.
The demonstration — "organized by the (...)
The United States has sanctioned two Burundi government officials and one rebel leader over violence in the country linked to President Pierre Nkurunziza's extended tenure, according to AP.
Those sanctioned are military commander Marius Ngendabanka, (...)
A Burundian appeals court on Monday handed down life prison sentences to 21 people who had been implicated in a failed coup attempt in May 2015, according to dpa.
They included a general and a colonel who had been acquitted by a lower court, said (...)
A security advisor to the Burundian vice president was shot dead Monday, a military spokesman said, according to dpa.
Brigadier General Athanase Kararuza and his wife were killed by unidentified gunmen who ambushed them in the north of the capital, (...)
A Burundian court on Friday released 41 young people suspected of protesting against President Pierre Nkurunziza in the first release of alleged demonstrators since the east African country was plunged into political violence nearly a year ago, (...)
African Union top-level delegates pressed the Burundian government Thursday to launch an unconditional dialogue with the opposition, at the start of their visit to the east African country, where 10 months of political violence left hundreds dead, (...)
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza agreed to begin inclusive dialogue to end a months-long political crisis in the central African nation, Reuters reported.
"I was very encouraged that the (...)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Burundi Monday and was set to encourage dialogue between the government and its opponents amid violent unrest.
Ban was welcomed at the Bujumbura airport by Burundi's Vice President Gaston Sindimwo.
Ban (...)
Two people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a series of grenade blasts in the Burundian capital, AP cited witnesses as saying.
Two of the explosions happened in an open market on Monday in the Ngagara area of Bujumbura, killing at (...)
A series of grenade blasts in Burundi's capital killed least two people and injured more than a dozen others Monday, witnesses said.
Two of the explosions happened in an open market in the Ngagara area of Bujumbura, killing the two. Two other (...)
Burundian police have arrested a British and a French journalist in the capital Bujumbura, dpa cited police as saying Friday.
Edward Philip Moore and Jean-Philippe Remy were held Thursday afternoon in the neighbourhood of Nyakabiga, deputy police (...)
