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Burundi’s government is trying to increase its share of the mineral wealth that foreign mining companies extract from its soil. The government receives only 10% of the income from the minerals even though it owns the land, according to an official of the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
Burundi’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), created in 2014 to calm ethnic tensions, has so far done the opposite. The TRC itself has become controversial, amid accusations of bias.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Burundi was a German colony. From 1916 to 1962, it then came under Belgian rule, which had a much greater impact on the country. Nevertheless, traces of the German era can still be found.