I want to farm chilli peppers," recalls Mr Niyibizi, who at the time thought that it would be easy. The seeds were ready but Mr Niyibizi's parents said chilli farming was a waste of time. For ...

PASEREC is designed to tackle the twin challenges of water insecurity and climate‑shock vulnerability across rural Burundi.

Burundian grassroots activist Deogratias Niyonkuru stops to take a closer look at a work of art near the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He takes out his mobile ...

The farmers of Karuzi province were among Africa’s poorest, but they had won at least one of nature’s lotteries: for as long as anyone could remember their corner of Burundi had been free of malaria.

On the outskirts of Mildura in north-western Victoria, a small plantation notable for its tall fields of African maize grows. Tending the corn crop are refugees from Burundi, many of whom were farmers ...

In tonight’s edition: Burundi schoolchildren sent home over scribbles, Morocco’s abortion debate, and Nigeria’s farming conflict. Tensions caused by President Pierre Nkurunziza's third term in office ...

It is 0600 hours and a beautiful golden sun warms up the Kakuma Refugee Camp, located in North-Western Kenya. Breaking the silence of the night, a cock crows and the birds start chirping. Bigirimana ...

East African refugees are creating new lives with old skills in the Sunraysia Mallee district in Victoria's northwest. Mildura's Burundian Community Farm, a joint project between local non-government ...