By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 18 April 2007 Countries of the Great Lakes region of central Africa have resurrected a former political and economic alliance so they can cooperate on a number of initiatives. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. Dem...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 01 February 2007 Burundi has agreed to offer troops for the African Union peacekeeping initiative in Somalia. Meanwhile, Uganda's parliament is brushing aside attempts by the ruling party to push through a motion to send Uga...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 September 2006 The government of Burundi and the country's last remaining rebel group Thursday met in Tanzania and finalized a ceasefire that seeks to end more than a dozen years of civil war. ----- South Africa's Presid...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 May 2006 The government of Burundi and the country's remaining rebel group are to meet Monday for peace talks in Tanzania. The National Liberation Forces rebel group is the last holdout against efforts to end Burundi's c...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 19 June 2006 Leader of Burundian rebel NLF group Agathon Rwasa, right, and Burundi's Minister for the Interior and Public Security Brig. Erneste Ndayishimye, left, sign an agreement in Dar Es Salaam, June 18, 2006 The gover...
By Cathy Majtenyi Burundi 16 May 2006 The tiny African Great Lakes nation of Burundi is the latest on the continent to institute free primary school education, which began last September following mor...
By Cathy Majtenyi Bujumbura 10 May 2006 Efforts are under way in Burundi to recover from more than a decade of civil war. The government and the United Nations recently agreed on the terms of two post...
By Cathy Majtenyi Bujumbura 25 April 2006 Africa Malaria Day, which falls on April 25, in part commemorates the many African countries offering a new drug treatment to fight the scourge of widespread...
By Cathy Majtenyi Bujumbura 24 April 2006 Every 30 seconds a child in Africa dies of malaria. Health care workers report a drop in malaria rates with bed net use, but in the tiny central African natio...
By Lisa Schlein The U.N. Refugee Agency says large numbers of Congolese refugees have left Burundi and returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past few days. The UNHCR says it is not encou...