Siobhan O'Grady
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 06:44
94 of Burundi’s 110 national assembly lawmakers voted in favor of a plan to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court. The decision was then unanimously approved by the senate. The United States has repeatedly expressed concern about human rights in Burundi, where refugees have accused security forces of hunting down government opponents and executing them in the streets
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 06:51
Egypt’s top diplomat said in an interview that the West was unfairly maligning his government’s human rights record while failing to support Cairo in its fight against Islamist extremists.
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 06:57
Witnesses and humanitarian organizations accused government security forces of entering opposition neighborhoods and shooting civilians in the back of their heads. Burundian officials said the civilians were likely killed by rebels and claimed security forces took aim only at the attackers. As many as 87 people — mainly Tutsis — lay dead, many in the streets and some with their hands still tied behind their backs. And by nightfall, many of the corpses had disappeared, their whereabouts remaining a mystery for more than a month.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 06:43
Willy Nyamitwe, a top advisor to Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, is in Washington this week to rally U.S. support after reports Rwanda is arming Burundian refugees and pressuring them to join opposition rebel groups.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 06:44
Riek Machar signed a peace deal designed to end one of Africa's worst conflicts, but he says U.S. neglect could unravel it.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 06:56
oordination between American officials in Afghanistan is so rare that in one instance, according to a U.S. watchdog, a senior official from the embassy in Kabul didn’t know about a $39.6 million business project until Afghan officials thanked the ambassador for supporting it.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 06:55
The Obama administration and other western observers said Nigeria’s peaceful political transition would pave the way for free and fair elections elsewhere on the continent. Less than a month later, Guinea and Burundi are already proving them wrong.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 05:55
The top American watchdog for Afghanistan’s reconstruction is investigating whether a Pentagon task force charged with juicing Afghanistan’s moribund economy misspent millions of taxpayer dollars on lavish overseas travel and complicated development projects that did little to create new jobs or spur new growth in the country.