British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday announced a five billion US dollar aid plan to provide free healthcare for at least 10 million people in developing countries. Nepal, Malawi, Ghana, Liberia, Burundi and Sierra Leone will benefit from the programme. The programme will be funded by the United Kingdom, Austria, Norway, the Netherlands and the [...]

In Burundi, witnesses have testified in the trial of 11 men accused of the attempted murder of albino people and selling their body parts. Initial charges of murder were dropped due to insufficient evidence. It is believed the body parts are sold in neighbouring Tanzania for witchcraft purposes. Forty-six albino people have been murdered in [...]

Leaders of countries in Africa’s Great Lakes region [Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania] have formally hailed the arrest of Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda and indicated that Lord’s Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony is the next target.

Seattle University and the Opus Prize Foundation awarded the $1 million Opus Prize to Marguerite “Maggy” Barankitse for her 15 years of work providing safe havens to 30,000 child victims of ethnic strife in Burundi, Central Africa.