Why not to go swimming in Burundi...

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

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April 11th 2012
“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Ok, so this famous query, which was supposedly pronounced by Henry Morton Stanley when he stumbled on the long errant Dr. Livingstone, was uttered in Ujiji, in what is now Tanzania, not in Burundi - yet I couldn’t resist using it in this context!<span> In my defense, these two almost storybook characters did continue on to a point on the Burundian shore o ... read more

Africa » Burundi

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Burundi's first democratically elected president was assassinated in October 1993 after only one hundred days in office. Since then, some 200,000 Burundians have perished in widespread, often intense ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi factions. H... ... read more