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  Air Burundi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Air Burundi is the state owned national airline of Burundi and based in Bujumbura.
It was formed as Societe de Transports Aériens du Burundi and adopted the present name in June 1975.
Air Burundi operates a scheduled international service to Kigali (at January 2005).
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Air_Burundi   (170 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 8Y
Bujumbura, estimated population 300,000 (1994), is the capital of Burundi.
Kigali, population 603,049 (2002 census), is the capital city of Rwanda and its largest city, lying in the centre of the nation.
A West Coast Air Twin Otter rigged as a floatplane Air Labrador Twin Otter The DHC-6 Twin Otter is a 20-seat STOL feederliner and utility aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/8Y   (620 words)

  
 Burundi Country Profile market access trade issues
Burundi is part of the Lome Convention, and, as such, its goods receive preferential entry into the European Community (EC).
In Burundi, the trade payment system is largely liberalised although there remain some exchange regulations and control due to the unfavourable state of foreign currency resources.
Burundi is a part of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
www.fita.org /countries/marche_83.html   (946 words)

  
  Burundi - MSN Encarta
Burundi has two small coal-fired generating plants and two small hydroelectric dams, which in 2003 produced 141 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, or 80 percent of the country’s needs.
Burundi has no railroads but possesses a road network of about 14,500 km (about 9,000 mi), of which 640 km (400 mi) are paved, and about 1,950 km (about 1,210 mi) are classified as national roads.
The unit of currency is the Burundi franc (1,100.91 francs equal U.S.$1; 2004 average).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573494_5/Burundi.html   (374 words)

  
 An MBendi Profile: An MBendi Country Profile for Burundi including economic and travel overviews and directories of ...
Burundi is a landlocked independent state which lies to the south of Rwanda and forms part of the Central African Region.
Burundi’s economy is estimated to have contracted by 25% since 1998.
The Burundi oil industry is one of the key elements in the economy; accounting for around 15% of its imports.
www.mbendi.co.za /land/af/bu/p0005.htm   (1253 words)

  
 Burundi TRANSPORTATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A great hindrance to Burundi's economic development is lack of adequate transportation.
Burundi is dependent on Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and the DROC for its imports.
Air service is maintained by Air Burundi, which operates domestic service and flies to Rwanda, Tanzania, and the DROC.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa/Burundi-TRANSPORTATION.html   (200 words)

  
 IOL: Air Force man guilty of killing his children
The Air Force sergeant who admitted that he shot and killed his two children and tried to kill his wife was on Monday found guilty by the Nelspruit Circuit Court of six charges against him.
While Venter was in the security section of the SA Air Force, she worked as a civilian secretary at the base.
Venter raised his voice, saying he was not sure Millie cared for him anymore or that she would continue supporting him during his trial in Burundi, in which he was charged with the murder and rape of a Burundi teenager.
www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20061017024445794C315437   (949 words)

  
 Burundi Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
Despite positive changes and a genuine feeling in Burundi that peace is finally possible after 12 years of civil war, sporadic clashes between government and rebel forces continue.
The climate in Burundi varies widely depending on whether you are in the lowlands around Lake Tanganyika, where temperatures average 30°C (86F), or the more mountainous north, where the usual temperature is a much milder 20°C (68°F).
At the end of the 19th century, Burundi and Rwanda were colonised by Germany, but they were so thinly garrisoned that the Belgians were easily able to oust the Germans during WWI.
www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/africa/burundi?v=print   (1579 words)

  
 Burundi Realities - Analysis, Research, Information and Data on Burundi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Burundi and Sierra Leone are the first countries to benefit from the support of the new commission, which began operations in June.
Burundi may again find itself in a state of internal conflict if the Government fails to drop its intolerance of critics just as the country takes the first steps towards peace after 12 years of civil war, a human rights expert has told the United Nations General Assembly.
Earlier this month, Burundi's High Court had said the seven men should be freed on bail, but after prosecutors protested at the decision the court reversed its ruling.
www.burundirealite.org /burundi/news_e.cfm   (2599 words)

  
 Precision Air : : News
Precision Air was nominated the Airline of the Year 2006 in May by the Tanzania Tourist Board in recognition of its fast growth and network expansion, which plays a key role in the growth of the country’s tourism sector.
Precision Air is also due to start operating flights to Lilongwe and Blantyre later this month in a code-sharing agreement with Air Malawi signed by the two airlines in Dar es Salaam a fortnight ago.
Precision Air, he said, is committed to enhance and expand its services to new routes in future adding that this would include forging more partnerships with other airlines.
www.precisionairtz.com /archive.asp   (3667 words)

  
 Air burundi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Burundi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The three stars are also said to represent the three ethnic groups who live in Burundi: the Hutu, Tutsi and the Twa.
Burundi has a similar ethnic mix to Rwanda and has similar problems.
The flag of Burundi has three colours [note that "tricolore" means "with three colours", sensu stricto, but usually "with three stripes of different colours", influenced by the French Tricolore, which is obviously not case here] : green, white and red.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/bi.html   (876 words)

  
 Worldworx Travel - Safety - Africa - Burundi
Burundi is a small, inland African nation that entered a period of instability following the assassination of Burundi's first democratically elected president in 1993.
Fighting between rebel forces and the Burundian military continues to be a problem in the interior and in the outskirts of the capital.
As there is no direct commercial air service between the United States and Burundi at present, nor economic authority to operate such service, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not assessed the Burundian Civil Aviation Authority for compliance with international aviation safety standards for oversight of Burundi's air carrier operations.
www.worldworx.tv /safety/africa/burundi/index.htm   (1201 words)

  
 Burundi: Recent Documents
They are fleeing Burundis intensified civil war, ethnic cleansing, wholesale massacres of civilians both by government soldiers and rebels, and a coup that ousted Burundis democratically elected government last July.
In Nairobi, Burundi's main armed opposition group, the Hutudominated National Council for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD), insists that the embargo should be tightened, charging that some regional countries are violating it, especially Rwanda.
The CNDD charged that goods were also finding their way into Burundi from other countries: cement from Zambia, beer from Zaire as well as Rwanda, and perfumes, cooking oil and salt from Kenya and Tanzania.
www.africaaction.org /docs97/bur9701.htm   (2496 words)

  
 Burundi: Government Forcibly Displaces Civilians (Human Rights Watch, 4-6-2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Burundian authorities have refused to allow humanitarian aid groups to provide assistance to the displaced persons, who are suffering from malnutrition and disease.
Authorities have excluded aid workers, saying the area is "insecure." Rebels of the Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD), fighting the Burundian government for the last seven years, make frequent incursions into eastern Burundi from bases in neighboring Tanzania.
Representatives of United Nations agencies were permitted to visit the camps for the first time yesterday in the company of government officials.
www.hrw.org /press/2002/06/burundi0402.htm   (633 words)

  
 Latest News 140 -- Burundi latest & Prison disturbances in Brazil
BURUNDI: Marjorie-Euphrasie Niyungeko, Executive Secretary of the Bible Society in Burundi, told participants at a fundraising workshop in Nairobi this week that Christians are continuing to give generously to the Bible Society despite dire poverty and hardship brought about by seven years of civil war.
She has contacted Air Burundi, which is trying to secure her a seat on a flight to Bujumbura on Monday.
Burundi's first democratically-elected Hutu government was overthrown during a Tutsi-led military coup in 1993.
www.biblesociety.org /latestnews/latest140.html   (1064 words)

  
 Radio Isanganiro director arrested, joins two other journalists in Mpimba prison : print
“Burundi’s donors must put pressure on the president’s office to have Nibizi and Kiramvu released and to have Burundi’s laws amended, as it is unacceptable for journalists to be treated like criminals over the least complaint,” Reporters Without Borders added.
At the end of the afternoon of 21 November, Nibizi, Kiramvu and a third RPA journalist, André-Palice Ndimurukundo, received a summons to report to the Bujumbura prosecutor at 2 p.m.
The arrests appear to have been prompted by Kiramvu’s comments on the air last August criticising articles in the fortnightly Intumwa (The Messenger), the mouthpiece of the ruling CNDD-FDD party, that detailed evidence against alleged coup plotters although the case has not yet been sent for trial.
www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=19874   (647 words)

  
 Travel advice for Burundi from the FCO and travel insurance from 1cover.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
You may drive in Burundi on a full UK driving licence for the first six months, after which, you are required to obtain a Burundi driving licence.
The EU has published a list of air carriers that are subject to an operating ban or restrictions within the community.
An earthquake struck the Lake Tanganyika region (on the border of DRC and Tanzania) on 5 December 2005.
www.1cover.co.uk /travel-insurance/Burundi   (1289 words)

  
 Burundi - Consular Information Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
U.S. citizens in Burundi should establish and maintain contact with the U.S. Embassy and consider their own personal security in determining whether to remain in the country.
In light of continuing ethnic and political tensions, all areas of Burundi are potentially unstable.
AVIATION SAFETY OVERSIGHT: As there is no direct commercial air service at present, nor economic authority to operate such service between the U.S. and Burundi, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not assessed the Burundian Civil Aviation Authority for compliance with international aviation safety standards for oversight of Burundi’s air carrier operations.
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 Reiseführer Burundi (Afrika)
Staatsangehörigen von Ländern, in denen Burundi keine diplomatischen Vertretungen hat, wird bei der Einreise über den Flughafen Bujumbura ein Visum ausgestellt, vorausgesetzt sie haben ihr Reisebüro vorher über persönliche Daten, Paßnummer und Flugdaten in Kenntnis gesetzt.
Burundis nationale Fluggesellschaft Air Burundi (PB) ist nicht in Europa vertreten.
Burundi ist immer noch ein Agrarstaat und gehört zu den ärmsten Ländern weltweit.
www.go-tour.de /urlaub/afrika-reisen/burundi.html   (1322 words)

  
 Reporters sans frontières - Burundi - 2004 Annual Report
The transfer of power in spring 2003 from President Pierre Buyoya to his successor Domitien Ndayizeye, the appointed head of the transitional government for the second half of its three-year period, had no direct effect on the work environment for Burundi’s journalists.
Nonetheless, respect for press freedom in Burundi varied according to developments in the peace talks between the government and rebels.
When the climate was especially tense, especially after violent clashes, the media were closely monitored by the authorities, who were infuriated to hear rebels express their views on local radio stations.
www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=10133   (584 words)

  
 Burundi Embassy
But the relaxation would be more thrilling in Burundi, a country which is very well known for its legendary hospitality, if you can visit the whole of it.
The geographical structure of Burundi and the micro-climates within the country involve a diversity of vegetation.
Before explaining the different round trips through out the country conducted by Burundi Tours Travel Tours, it is useful to know that Burundi has preciously protected all the historical traces of the explorers of the last centry who stopped over its territory.
www.burundi-embassy-berlin.com /Tourist/Tour.htm   (1477 words)

  
 dohop.com - Travel guides - search flights to Burundi and more information for Burundi
Burundi's first democratically elected president was assassinated in October 1993 after only one hundred days in office, triggering widespread ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi factions.
An internationally brokered power-sharing agreement between the Tutsi-dominated government and the Hutu rebels in 2003 paved the way for a transition process that led to an integrated defense force, established a new constitution in October 2004, and elected a majority Hutu government in 2005.
Economy: Burundi is a landlocked, resource-poor country with an underdeveloped manufacturing sector.
www.dohop.com /info/countries/BI   (496 words)

  
 Lonely Planet
Air Burundi and Ethiopian Airlines take on the short hop to Kigali.A minibus operated by Yahoo Express is probably the safest way to travel in and out of Burundi overland.
The bus operates daily between Kayanza, Burundi and Butare, Rwanda.The MV Mwongozo ferry sails along Lake Tanganyika between Bujumbura and Kigoma, Tanzania.
Holidays that include air travel, which you arrange on Expedia.co.uk are ATOL Protected by the Civil Aviation Authority under ATOL number 5788.
www.expedia.co.uk /lonelyplanet/Burundi/transport.aspx   (356 words)

  
 Continental Airlines - Travel - International (Burundi)
Travel Warning: All but essential travel to Bujumbura is advised due to the high threat from indiscriminate attacks by rebel groups, and all travel to other parts of Burundi, unless with an organised UN Mission, particularly in the Bujumbura Rural Province.
AIR: Burundi’s national airline is Air Burundi (8Y).
ROAD: It is normally possible to drive into Burundi from Congo (Dem Rep), either from the north or south.
www.continental.com /web/en-US/apps/travel/guide/CountryDetail.aspx?code=bdi&Section=Travel+-+International   (227 words)

  
 SF.260 military customers
The Republic of Singapore Air Force officially transferred six SF.260 trainer aircraft to the Indonesian Air Force in a ceremony held at Halim air base, Jakarta, 5 July 2002.
The Chief of Air Force of the RSAF, Major General Lim Kim Choon and the Chief of Staff of the TNI-AU, Air Chief Marshal Chappy Hakim officiated at the ceremony where they signed the certificate for the transfer of the aircraft.
The Republic of Singapore Air Force officially transferred six SF.260 aircraft to the Indonesian Air Force during a ceremony held at Halim air base, Jakarta, on 5 July 2002.
www.siai-marchetti.nl /sf260mil.html   (3063 words)

  
 Travelust African Safaris: Africa Gorilla Tours, Uganda,Tanzania,Kenya wildlife tours, Safaris Kenya, Tanzania, Africa ...
All International flights arriving in Kigali are with SN Brussels, Kenya Airways Ethiopian Airlines, Air Burundi,South African Airways and Rwandair Express.
Visas, required by all visitors except nationals of the USA, UK, Germany, Canada, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sweden, Mauritius, South Africa and Hong Kong, cost USD 60 and can be bought upon arrival.
Air charter services are available anywhere in the country and well advertised.
www.travelust.com /rwandaInfo.php   (823 words)

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