Overview
Since independence in 1961, Burundi has been scarred by conflict between the dominant Tutsi minority and the Hutu majority and has been the scene of one of Africa's longest running civil wars.
It is now beginning to reap the dividends of a peace process, but faces the triple challenges of reviving a shattered economy and infrastructure, disarming thousands of soldiers and former rebels, and the re-integration into society of hundreds of thousand of refugees and internally displaced persons.
Concern has been active here since 1997 and manages four community-based projects in three of the country's seventeen provinces. Projects include health, nutrition, food security and education. Read more...
