BUJUMBURA, July 28, 2008 (AFP) - Two people were killed and 45 wounded in a grenade attack on a high-school graduation party in central Burundi, a local official said Monday.

Attackers hurled the grenade at the revellers at a house in Burundi's central Gitega province late Sunday, local administrator Josee Gitunati told AFP.

BUJUMBURA, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - Some 1,300 fighters with Burundi's rebel National Liberation Forces (FNL) have answered their leadership's call to assemble at a resettlement site, giving the African nation's fragile peace process renewed hope, an AFP correspondent said Monday.

BUJUMBURA, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - A 13-year-old girl was killed by a grenade thrown into her home, said witnesses Monday, as a local rights group released a report on the growing violence in the country.

BUJUMBURA, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - A dozen prisoners were on the run in Burundi on Friday, after a twenty-strong jailbreak of inmates from the country's largest prison, police said.

BUJUMBURA, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Burundian police arrested and detained a former lawmaker for allegedly threatening state security, the second ex-MP to be detained on this accusation in three weeks, officials said Thursday.

Police spokesman Pierre-Chanel Ntarabaganyi said Gerard Nkurunziza was arrested on Tuesday and locked up in Bujumbura's central prison.

BUJUMBURA, July 9, 2008 (AFP) - The Burundian government Wednesday accused the rebel National Liberation Forces (FNL) of resuming looting and attacks on civilians, after the group's leader suspended peace moves.

'Since Sunday ... the rebel movement has been pillaging and ravaging fields and houses,' Communications Minister Hafsa Mossi told a press conference.

BUJUMBURA, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - Burundi's National Liberation Forces announced the suspension of a scheduled roundup of troops in a protest against the government's refusal to recognise the rebel group as a political party.

BUJUMBURA, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - Burundi's National Liberation Forces announced the suspension of a scheduled roundup of troops in a protest against the government's refusal to recognise the rebel group as a political party.

PRETORIA, June 8, 2008 (AFP) - Burundi's top rebel leader and the government's chief negotiator pledged to work to end 15 years of civil war as they arrived in South Africa Sunday for talks on the country's peace process.

BUJUMBURA, June 8, 2008 (AFP) - Burundi's main opposition party fractured Sunday after a group of legislators broke ranks and formed a new faction allied to the government.

Former parliament speaker Jean Minani led 12 of 25 Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU) lawmakers to defect into the newly-formed FRODEBU-Nyakuri, or Real FRODEBU.