Wikipedia:WikiProject Burundi

WikiProject Burundi

This WikiProject is about Burundi.
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Welcome to the WikiProject Burundi! This group was formed to better organize articles on Burundi in a spirit of cooperation.

Scope

This group includes within its scope all articles related to Burundi, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Burundi in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Burundi or one of its subcategories.

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Today's featured articles

• 26 Jul 2026 – Nile (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Members

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Requests

Article requests

• Monarchy of Burundi
• Literature of Burundi
• Jean-Pierre Chrétien (historian)
• Imbonkerakure (CNDD-FDD youth wing)

Photo requests

In addition to posting your image requests on the list, on the talk page(s) of the subject(s), and on the Wikimedia Commons (Commons:Commons:Picture requests), please also post them at fr:Wikipédia:Atelier photographique on the French Wikipedia. If you do not know French, you can ask someone at fr:Wikipédia:Bistro_des_non-francophones/en to help you.

Recognized content

Burundi articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2						2
FL	1						1
FM					7		7
GA	1	3	2	3		1	10
B	9	1	5	3		26	44
C	6	12	13	15		114	160
Start	23	30	42	79		165	339
Stub	5	7	16	138		478	644
List	4	3	6	12		51	76
Category					1,201		1,201
Disambig					2		2
File					1		1
Portal					1		1
Project					4		4
Redirect		1	1	3	57		62
Template					75		75
Other					1		1
Assessed	51	57	85	253	1,349	835	2,630
Unassessed						17	17
Total	51	57	85	253	1,349	852	2,647
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 6,351			Ω = 5.30

Featured articles

• Nile
• Louis Rwagasore

Featured lists

• List of presidents of Burundi

Good articles

• 1965 Burundian coup attempt
• 1993 Burundian coup attempt
• Saido Berahino
• Joseph Biroli
• Bugesera invasion
• Burundi at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Nestory Irankunda
• Sylvie Kinigi
• Paul Mirerekano
• Cyprien Ntaryamira

Former good articles

• Burundi
• Burundi women's national football team

Did you know? articles

• 1966 Toro earthquake
• 1987 Burundian coup d'état
• 1996 Burundian coup d'état
• Abortion in Burundi
• Akazehe
• Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira
• Banana beer
• Domitille Barancira
• Saido Berahino
• Burundi women's national football team
• Congo-Nile Divide (Rwanda-Burundi)
• Gitega Province
• Great Lakes refugee crisis
• Jean-Claude Kavumbagu
• Nile
• Clotilde Niragira
• Abraham Niyonkuru
• Platythelphusa
• Richard Stratton (diplomat)
• Wildlife of Burundi
• Charlotte Wilson (VSO)

In the News articles

• 2015 Burundian coup attempt
• 2015 Burundian presidential election
• Burundian unrest (2015–2018)
• East African Community
• Gitega prison fire
• Mali War
• Clotilde Niragira
• Pierre Nkurunziza
• Somali Civil War (2009–present)

Did You Know (DYK)s

• Persecution of people with albinism - 4 November 2008
• Assassination of Habyarimana and Ntaryamira - 12 June 2007
• Charlotte Wilson (VSO) - 29 June 2006

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

• Burundi

Accessible resources

Web pages

• "Burundi". The World Factbook. United States Central Intelligence Agency. March 22, 2022.
• "Droit, pouvour et paix au Burundi". Great Lakes of Africa Centre (in French). University of Antwerp. Retrieved 16 September 2021. - Great Lakes of Africa Centre (University of Antwerp) page on legal history of Burundi, includes files of past constitutions and court decisions

News

• Iwacu—Les voix du Burundi (main Burundian independent newspaper)
  • IWACU English News (English edition)
• Le Renouveau du Burundi (government newspaper)
• Radio télévision nationale du Burundi (government broadcaster)
• Jimbere Magazine (Burundian magazine with focus on women's issues)
• allAfrica.com on Burundi
• Burundi section, at African Arguments (Royal African Society)
• Burundi section, at Radio France Internationale (in English)
• Burundi section at Al Jazeera

Journals and journal articles

• Chrétien, Jean-Pierre (2016). "La guerre de 1914-1918 au Burundi. Le vécu local d'un conflit mondial". Outre-Mers (in French). 1 (390–391): 127–151. – Burundi during World War I
• Revue Burundaise de Droit et Société Legal studies journal published by the University of Burundi
• Revue Médicale de Bujumbura Medical journal published by the University of Burundi
• Revue de l’Université du Burundi Generic journal published by the University of Burundi, with sections for hard sciences and humanities

Books

• Eggers, Ellen K., ed. (2006). Historical Dictionary of Burundi (3rd ed.). Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810853027. (also 1976 first edition)
• Ghislain, Jean (1970). La Féodalité au Burundi (PDF) (in French). Brussels: Académie royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer. OCLC 2115033.
• Bidou, J.-E.; Ndayirukiye, S.; Ndayishimiye, J.-P.; Sirven, P, eds. (1991). Géographie du Burundi. Paris: Hatier. ISBN 9782218039065.
• Berwouts, Kris (2006). Burundi (in Dutch). Amsterdam: KIT Publishers. ISBN 9789068324303.
• Krueger, Robert; Krueger, Kathleen Tobin (2007). From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi : Our Embassy Years During Genocide (PDF). University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292714861.
• Lemarchand, René (1970). Rwanda and Burundi. New York: Praeger Publishers. OCLC 254366212. (also via Archive.org)
• Lemarchand, René (1994). Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. ISBN 0-521-45176-0.
• McDonald, Gordon C., ed. (1969). Area Handbook for Burundi (PDF). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 953395348.
• Uvin, Peter (2009). Life after Violence: A People's Story of Burundi. London: Zed Books. ISBN 9781848131798.

Theses, articles, and individual documents

• "ABC politique de la question burundaise" (PDF). Voie du Progrès (in French). No. 20. Mouvement des Etudiants Progressistes Burundi. June 1990.
• Banshimiyubusa, Denis (2018). Les enjeux et défis de la démocratisation au Burundi. Essai d'analyse et d'interprétation à partir des partis politiques [The issues and challenges of democratization in Burundi. Essay of analysis and interpretation from political parties] (PDF) (PhD thesis) (in French). Université Pau et des Pays de l'Adour. OCLC 1085890695. (currently being turned into a book)
• Toyi, Oscar (2012). Crises de la démocratisation et politiques publiques urbaines de l'habitat dans la ville de Bujumbura de 1962 à 2009 (PDF) (PhD thesis) (in French). Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour. (later turned into a book)
• GOUVERNEMENT DU 10 juillet 1993 1 Members of the Ndadaye/Kinigi government of 10 July 1993
• Décrets nommant les gouvernements dépuis l'indépendance jusqu'en 1988 Nominating decrees of Burundian governments from 1962-1988

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• WP:WikiProject Rwanda
• WP:WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo
• WP:WikiProject Tanzania