President Pierre Nkurunziza

The UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic is repatriating three military officers on suspicion they committed human rights violations during political unrest in their home country, Burundi, an internal document showed.

UN Security Council ambassadors met Burundi's leaders on Friday to push peace efforts amid renewed violence in the capital of the troubled central African nation.

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza threatened today to fight any African Union peacekeepers imposed on his country, in his most confrontational comments yet on a mounting political crisis.

Rival Burundi factions held peace talks in Uganda today, resuming long-stalled negotiations aimed at ending months of violence that has raised fears of a return to civil war.

Burundi's rebels came together today for the first time as a force aimed at ousting President Pierre Nkurunziza, after months of bloodshed in the troubled central African country.

Burundi's government on Saturday rejected the African Union's plans to deploy a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to stop escalating violence triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's extended tenure in office, a government spokesman said.

The African Union will send a 5,000 strong force to stop violence in troubled Burundi, giving Bujumbura a four-day deadline to agree but warning it would send troops anyway.

Seventy-nine "enemies" and eight government soldiers died during and after Friday's coordinated attacks on three military bases in Burundi, an army spokesman said today.

An eye witness says 21 people have been found shot dead in a neighborhood of Burundi's capital after the government said an unidentified group carried out coordinated attacks on three military installations elsewhere.

Heavily-armed gunmen launched coordinated assaults on two army barracks in the Burundi capital today leaving dozens dead, mostly attackers, in the worst unrest since a failed May coup, a senior military officer said.

At least two people were killed and a policeman wounded in gun battles in Burundi's capital, police and witnesses said today, as security forces searched opposition strongholds for weapons.

Gunmen executed nine people in Burundi's capital hours before police launched house-to-house searches for weapons today, amid international fears of fresh bloodletting in the central African nation.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused Burundi's leaders of carrying out "massacres" on their people in his most critical speech yet of the crisis in the troubled neighbouring state.

More than a dozen people were killed in clashes in Burundi on Monday and Tuesday, police said, in the latest violence linked to the disputed third term of President Pierre Nkurunziza that has sparked concern by the United Nations Security Council.

A Burundian journalist, his wife and their two children were shot dead by security forces in a flashpoint district of the capital Bujumbura amid tensions following the re-election of President Pierre Nkurunziza, residents said Wednesday.

The UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic is repatriating three military officers on suspicion they committed human rights violations during political unrest in their home country, Burundi, an internal document showed.

UN Security Council ambassadors met Burundi's leaders on Friday to push peace efforts amid renewed violence in the capital of the troubled central African nation.

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza threatened today to fight any African Union peacekeepers imposed on his country, in his most confrontational comments yet on a mounting political crisis.

Rival Burundi factions held peace talks in Uganda today, resuming long-stalled negotiations aimed at ending months of violence that has raised fears of a return to civil war.

Burundi's rebels came together today for the first time as a force aimed at ousting President Pierre Nkurunziza, after months of bloodshed in the troubled central African country.

Burundi's government on Saturday rejected the African Union's plans to deploy a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to stop escalating violence triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's extended tenure in office, a government spokesman said.

The African Union will send a 5,000 strong force to stop violence in troubled Burundi, giving Bujumbura a four-day deadline to agree but warning it would send troops anyway.

Seventy-nine "enemies" and eight government soldiers died during and after Friday's coordinated attacks on three military bases in Burundi, an army spokesman said today.

An eye witness says 21 people have been found shot dead in a neighborhood of Burundi's capital after the government said an unidentified group carried out coordinated attacks on three military installations elsewhere.

Heavily-armed gunmen launched coordinated assaults on two army barracks in the Burundi capital today leaving dozens dead, mostly attackers, in the worst unrest since a failed May coup, a senior military officer said.

At least two people were killed and a policeman wounded in gun battles in Burundi's capital, police and witnesses said today, as security forces searched opposition strongholds for weapons.

Gunmen executed nine people in Burundi's capital hours before police launched house-to-house searches for weapons today, amid international fears of fresh bloodletting in the central African nation.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused Burundi's leaders of carrying out "massacres" on their people in his most critical speech yet of the crisis in the troubled neighbouring state.

More than a dozen people were killed in clashes in Burundi on Monday and Tuesday, police said, in the latest violence linked to the disputed third term of President Pierre Nkurunziza that has sparked concern by the United Nations Security Council.

A Burundian journalist, his wife and their two children were shot dead by security forces in a flashpoint district of the capital Bujumbura amid tensions following the re-election of President Pierre Nkurunziza, residents said Wednesday.