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  Burundi - Search View - MSN Encarta
Burundi’s life expectancy at birth is 51 years, among the lowest in the world, due to poverty, ethnic strife, and numerous diseases, including one of the highest incidences of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the world.
Burundi is a member of the United Nations (UN), the Organization of African Unity, and is a signatory of the Lomé Convention (agreements of cooperation between the European Union and many developing countries).
In legislative elections that followed, the FDD won a majority in both the National Assembly and the Senate, and in August, FDD leader Pierre Nkurunziza was sworn in as the first president under the new constitution.
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 Profile - Burundi
Burundi, landlocked republic in eastern Africa, bounded on the north by Rwanda, on the east and south by Tanzania, and on the west by Lake Tanganyika and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire).
The population of Burundi (1998 estimate) is 5,537,387.
Burundi’s life expectancy at birth is 46 years, among the lowest in the world, due to poverty, ethnic strife, and numerous diseases, including one of the highest incidences of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the world.
www.inadev.org /profile_-_burundi.htm   (3170 words)

  
 History of Burundi
In the 16th century, Burundi was a kingdom characterized by a hierarchical political authority and tributary economic exchange.
The 1965 assassination of the Hutu prime minister set in motion a series of destabilizing Hutu revolts and subsequent governmental repression.
Burundi's first Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye[?], of the Hutu-dominated FRODEBU Party, was elected in 1993.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/History_of_Burundi.html   (649 words)

  
 Category "1965 elections" - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Category "1965 elections" - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 19:03, 22 June 2005.
Category "1965 elections", Elections by year and 1965.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Category/1965_elections   (65 words)

  
 Elections in Burundi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elections in Burundi gives information on election and election results in Burundi.
Burundi elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature.
Burundi has a multi-party system, with two or three strong parties and a third party that is electorally successful.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Burundi   (316 words)

  
 Burundi - History and Politics
New elections are scheduled for 2005, though this depends on the ending of the long-running civil war.
Elections were held in Burundi in 1961 in which, contrary to the wishes of the administration, Uprona triumphed, securing 80% of the vote and 58 of the 64 seats in the legislature.
Local elections at the commune level were due to be held in February, while legislative and senatorial elections in March and presidential elections scheduled to take place on 22 April.
www.iss.co.za /AF/profiles/Burundi/Politics.html   (3501 words)

  
 Burundi (03/06)
In April 2005, Burundi's transitional government was again extended and an electoral calendar was established at a regional summit held in Uganda.
A joint session of the parliament elected Pierre Nkurunziza as President of Burundi on August 19, 2005 in a vote of 151 to 9 with one abstention, establishing the post-transition government.
Burundi is a member of various international and regional organizations, including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the African Union, and the African Development Bank, and became a member of COMESA, the free-tariff zone of eastern and southern Africa, in 2004.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2821.htm   (3117 words)

  
 UN Commission on Human Rights - Report of the Special Rapporteur's mission to Burundi (Jul 95)
Burundi is predominantly an agrarian economy; as much as 90 per cent of the population is dependent on subsistence farming.
The complexity of the refugee situation in Burundi stems from the fact that, at the same time as producing refugee flows, the country is receiving refugees from other countries of the region, mainly Rwanda, and Burundi returnees who had left the country in previous periods of violence.
Returnees, former Burundi refugees who fled to other countries of the region in the past and who are returning to their country, stay temporarily in refugee camps until they can re­establish themselves in their communes of origin.
www.umn.edu /humanrts/commission/country52/4-add1.htm   (11966 words)

  
 BURUNDI - 1972 : BURUNDI SINCE THE GENOCIDE
The monarchy in Burundi did not survive the year for Ntare was overthrown in a military coup by his prime minister, Captain Micombero, in November.
Burundi has never signed the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and is one of a small minority of African states to have neither signed nor ratified the OAU's Africa Charter of Human and People's Rights.
The government argues that individual farming enterprise in Burundi is no longer appropriate in conditions of substantial demographic growth in an already densely populated country, of soil erosion and of declining yields on overworked agricultural land.
www.burundi-agnews.info /agnews_burundisincegeno1972.htm   (7252 words)

  
 Comparative Criminology | Africa - Burundi
Burundi is heavily dependent on bilateral and multilateral aid, with external debt totaling $1.2 billion in 2003.
Burundi will be compared with Japan (country with a low crime rate) and USA (country with a high crime rate).
During the year, Burundi was a source and transit country for children trafficked for the purpose of forced soldiering, and there were reports of coerced sexual exploitation of women by both government soldiers and rebel combatants.
www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/africa/burundi.html   (5508 words)

  
 University of Michigan, NRE545, 1997 Monograph
Burundi is an anomaly in a continent of states with artificially constructed borders in that it was a 'kingdom' long before colonization and has been a "national entity" for centuries.
Burundi is in the early stages of the demographic transition.
Results from studying maps of outbreaks of violence in Burundi (See Map 5.) shows that in the earlier periods of violence, 1965 and 1972, there appears to be little correlation between where the violence began and where population densities were highest.
www.umich.edu /~csfound/545/1997/eng/shanfin.html   (10882 words)

  
 History of Burundi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A king (mwani) headed a princely aristocracy (ganwa) which owned most of the land and required a tribute, or tax, from local farmers and herders.
In November 1995, the presidents of Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire announced a regional initiative for a negotiated peace in Burundi facilitated by former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere.
While the establishment of a transitional government represents significant progress toward representative government and elections, failure to reach agreement with the rebel factions on an end to the fighting has delayed implementation of military reform and other social and political measures called for by the Arusha Accords.
www.historyofnations.net /africa/burundi.html   (976 words)

  
 User:Acntx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I am also webmaster of the African Elections Database, which contains data on current and past elections held in the region.
Botswanan general election, 2004, Burkina Faso presidential elections, 2005, Central African Republic elections, 2005, Ghanaian presidential election, 2004, Guinea-Bissau legislative election, 2004, Kenyan constitutional referendum, 2005, Liberian elections, 2005, Togolese presidential election, 2005, Uganda multiparty referendum, 2005
Elections in 2005, Elections in 2006, Andorran parliamentary election, 2005, Afghan presidential election, 2004, Northern Mariana Islands elections, 2005, Palestinian presidential election, 2005, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines parliamentary election, 2005, Sri Lankan presidential election, 2005
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 BURUNDI
Since Burundi gained independence it has been convulsed by regular bouts of violence: coups have been the ‘normal’ means of securing (intra-Tutsi) regime change, while several Hutu uprisings have attempted to challenge discrimination and oppression, in turn sparking extremely violent reactions by the armed forces.
Three linked developments were of particular importance: the assassination of a Hutu Prime Minister in 1965, the success of Hutu candidates in subsequent legislative elections, and the coup in 1966 which replaced Burundi’s constitutional monarchy with a Tutsi-dominated, one-party regime (Lemarchand, 1970; Chretien, 1996).
While ethnic identity is clearly a very important element of the security problematique in Burundi, to privilege it as the referent object for security is merely to reintroduce all the problems identified with the privileging of the state at another level (Krause and Williams, 1997; Shaw, 1994).
www.gmu.edu /academic/pcs/WJonesSt72PCS.htm   (9201 words)

  
 Gambia - History
The transition process included the compilation of a new electoral register, adoption of a new constitution by referendum in August 1996, and presidential and legislative elections in September 1996 and January 1997, respectively.
The IEC is responsible for registration of voters and conduct of elections and referenda.
The IEC conducted a presidential election on October 18, 2001, during which President Jammeh was re-elected for a second 5-year term (2001-06).
www.gambia-look.com /History-3.html   (869 words)

  
 IFES Election Guide - Country Profile: Singapore - Elections
The opposition retained the two seats won in the 2001 election and obtained a third one based on an allocation rule for non-constituency seats to parties not represented in the government.
Analysts believe early elections were called to take advantage of the country's strong economy in order to attract votes.
After 3 other would-be candidates had been disqualified by the Presidential Election Committee, Nathan was the only candidate listed as of the nomination deadline of August 17; he became president effective at noon that day.
www.electionguide.org /country-news.php?ID=193   (459 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
After Burundi attained independence on July, 1, 1962, there was much political instability and the monarchy became the only source of power that both Hutu and Tutsi related to.
In 1982, the national assembly was to be elected by voters from the adult population of Burundi, as provided for in the new constitution which was adopted in November of 1981.
This new constitution became official on March 13, 1992, and presidential and legislative elections were to follow in June of 1993.
www.earlham.edu /~pols/globalprobs/burundi/description2.html   (449 words)

  
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Around 300,000 such people registered with the government were permitted to reside and work in the country but faced restrictions on their movement, could not participate in elections, and could not own land.
To combat trafficking of Thai women to Japan, for example, both the Thai and Japanese governments needed to reform legislation and crack down on corruption of police and immigration officials.
In Slovakia, the head of the National Labor Office in November 1999 defended the office's policy of marking files of persons regarded as Roma with the letter "R" which he said reflected the "complicated social adaptability" of the group.
www.hrw.org /wr2k1/print/html/racism.htm   (4922 words)

  
 Elections in Burundi
At the next election, to be held in 2010, the President will be elected by direct popular vote.
Coalitions: Common Front (FC) [Contested 1961 Legislative Assembly Election] The main party in the Front was the Christian Democratic Party (PDC).
*100 seats were filled based on the election results; The remaining 18 seats were allocated based on the constitutional requirement that 60% of seats are filled by ethnic Hutus, 40% by ethnic Tutsis, 30% by Women, and 3 by ethnic Twa.
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 Burundi
Large numbers of internally displaced persons have been unable to produce their own food and are dependent on international humanitarian assistance.
This dependence on coffee has increased Burundi's vulnerability to fluctuations in seasonal yields and international coffee prices.
Although potential wealth in petroleum, nickel, copper, and other natural resources is being explored, the uncertain security situation has prevented meaningful investor interest.
www.a-hope.org /burundi.htm   (2462 words)

  
 netcyclo: Burundi
Burundi's first democratically elected president was assassinated in October 1993 after only four months in office.
elections: last held 29 June 1993 (next was scheduled to be held in 1998, but were suspended by presidential decree in 1996; elections are planned to follow the completion of the three-year transitional government)
Burundi is a landlocked, resource-poor country with an underdeveloped manufacturing sector.
www.netcyclo.com /places/polit/nations/burundi/burundi.htm   (2107 words)

  
 NABJ : Style Listings
Also known as Negro Codes, the statutes aimed to restore the political powers and economic structure of slavery by, for example, forbidding fls from owning or renting farmland.
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to guarantee basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches, ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins of the1960s to the March on Washington in 1963.
Voting Rights Act: Enacted on Aug. 6, 1965, it empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration and elections in communities, especially in the South, that had used tests to determine voter eligibility and or where registration or turnout was less than 50 percent in the 1964 presidential election.
www.nabj.org /newsroom/stylebook/pages   (9146 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook 2002 -- Field Listing - Political parties and leaders
note: about a dozen minor parties participated in the 1992 elections but only won a few seats and have little influence in the National Assembly
Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally or PDCI-RDA [Aime Henri Konan BEDIE]; Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Laurent GBAGBO]; Ivorian Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Rally of the Republicans or RDR [Alassane OUATTARA]; Union for Democracy and Peace or UDPCI [Gen. Robert GUEI]; over 20 smaller parties
there are no formal political parties, however, there are civic associations that, for purposes of legislative voting, join together to form political blocs
www.intellnet.org /resources/cia_worldfactbook_02/fields/2118.html   (2977 words)

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