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The Rwandan government on January 11 said Burundi had decided to shut its border with the East African nation, weeks after the Burundian president accused it of hosting a rebel group. Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye in late December accused Rwanda of hosting and training the Red Tabara...

Prosecutors in Burundi have charged 24 people with engaging in same-sex acts and inciting homosexuality in others, part of a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights that has been criticized by the United Nations. Police arrested 17 men and seven women as they attended a seminar organized by an HIV/AIDS charity...

Five women are seeking reparations and suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity for the segregationist policy that stripped them from their mothers—one that endured from the end of the 19th century to Congo's independence in 1960 and even after. As mixed-race children born under colonial...