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In a statement issued last March 5, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, announced her regret at the closure of the UN Human Rights Office in Burundi – which was set up more than two decades ago – at the insistence of the country’s go
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People fleeing in fear of violence in Burundi arrive in Mahama Refugee Camp, Rwanda (Archives). Photo - UNHCR, Kate Holt
Special Envoy Michel Kafando briefs Security Council on the situation in Burundi, 19 Feb 2019. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
UN Refugees Chief Filippo Grandi talks with a woman and her baby from the refugee community during his official visit to Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Kasulu District, western Tanzania, February 7, 2019. Photo: UNHCR/Georgina Goodwin
EAC leaders at the 20th Summit meeting in Arusha, 1 February 2019. From left to right, Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), John Magufuli (Tanzania) and Burundi's deputy president Gaston Sindimwo. EAC Photo/Filbert Rweyemamu
Special Envoy Michel Kafando in meeting with Heads of UN agencies in Burundi on 23 January 2018. UN Photo/Desiré Ndagijimana
Staff of OSESG-B at retreat to lay out plans for 2019. UN Photo/Napoleon Viban
OSESG-B director Yewande Odia and colleagues visit an orphanage in Bujumbura on 10 December 2018. UN Photo/Napoleon Viban
Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, briefs the Security Council on the situation in Burundi, 28 November 2018. UN Photo
On 12 September 2018 in Beni, a UNICEF staff member discusses the best way to protect yourself against Ebola in a conversation with young people living in Beni, DR Congo, after a recent Ebola outbreak. © UNICEF/Thomas Nybo
The Security Council unanimously adopts resolution 2439 concerning the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo. UN Photo/Manuel Elias