All stories related to Burundi
Devastation caused by landmines reaches far beyond injury and death
Apr 04, 2013
Richard MacCormac, head of humanitarian mine action for DanChurchAid, talks about the dangerous and multi-faceted nature of landmine clearance.
Unequal access to clean water threatens international peace
Mar 22, 2013
Unequal access to clean water still remains one of the world’s biggest abuses of human rights and challenges to development – creating millions of avoidable illnesses and deaths every year.
Back donors enhance capacity of aid and development work
Jan 16, 2013
The benefits of working with back donors go beyond funding relief and development work.
This is the last of my food
Jul 08, 2011
Laurie MacGregor reports from the Horn of Africa, where 10 million are at risk of starvation
ACT in Burundi
Organisations with HQ in Burundi
International organisations in Burundi
Organisations funding work in Burundi
- Anglican Overseas Aid-Australia
- Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS)
- Brot für die Welt (BfdW) (Bread for the World)
- Church World Service (CWS)
- DanChurchAid (DCA)
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
- Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The (PWRDF)
- Solidarité Protestante (Protestant Solidarity) (SP)
- World Renew (WR) - formerly Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
About Burundi
- Population: 8.57 million (World Bank, 2011)
- Capital: Bujumbura
- Area: 27,816 sq km (10,740 sq miles)
- Major languages: Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili
- Major religions: Christianity, indigenous beliefs
- Life expectancy: 49 years (men), 52 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 Burundi franc = 100 centimes
- Main exports: coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides
- GNI per capita: US $140 (World Bank, 2008)