Burundi chaos must be tamed before it spirals into genocide

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http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Burundi-chaos-must-be-tamed-before-it-spirals-into-genocide/-/1950946/2956978/-/format/xhtml/-/79mrubz/-/index.html

A veritable powder keg by any standards, Burundi has been rudderless and wracked by chaos ever since President Pierre Nkurunziza declared he was running for a third term, launching his bid to prolong his rule in April.

Since then, protests have been met with a brutal crackdown on opponents, activists and journalists.

Sadly, the violence has resulted in at least 240 deaths and more than 200,000 fleeing the country.

Unfortunately, the chaos is too reminiscent of the civil war that raged from 1993 to 2006 and left 300,000 dead.

The African aspect of the refugee crisis in Europe has been underreported for quite a while. Burundi and Chad both have hundreds of thousands of refugees trying to enter Europe also.

The article goes on to talk about the EU coming up with $4 billion to try to get African government to keep their people from leaving and take back the ones who left already.

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1. Population Connection's magazine has Burundi as its cover story

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http://www.populationconnection.org/article/the-blood-cries-out/

The story is almost all about conflict over land in Burundi -- too many people make their living from the land, and the number of acres per farmer keeps shrinking with population growth. Typically 2 or 3 sons inherit what the father had. (Women generally don't inherit in Burundi).

More broadly speaking, its no surprise that a large number of migrants are from Africa and the Middle East -- that's where the population is growing the most, while resources remain constant or shrink (particularly water in the Middle East and N. Africa. Climate change is not helping the situation either). Anyone who thinks the migration pressures are going to stop with peace in Syria and Iraq -- should that day ever come -- is fooling themselves.

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2. Posting to for later - Burundi

Thanks for the heads up.