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Burundi

Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...

Timeline of Events

1962

7.1.1962

Independence of Burundi.

9.18.1962

Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.

1966

7.8.1966

King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.

1994

4.6.1994

The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

2004

8.13.2004

156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.