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In 1993, the democratically elected president of Burundi, Melchior Ndadaye was assassinated in a coup. At the time, the country’s democratic institutions were still only three months old. The incident set off long-simmering ethnic tensions, leading to what would become a decade-long civil war. “We ate whatever we found on our path. We knocked down […]
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.