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BURUNDI

Location: Africa
Capital:
Bujumbura ( 300.000 inhab.)
Main Cities:
Kitega
Population:
6,695,000
Area:
27,834 km2
Coin:
1 Burundi franc = 100 centimes
Languages:
French, Kirundi
Religions:
Roman Catholic, Protestant
The Independence's Year:
1962
Rivers:
Ruvubu
Lakes:
Tanganica

 

 

Small nation of oriental (great few more than Sicily) Africa, posts between Congo and Tanzania.
It's devastated by a long and bloody ethnic civil war among the Tutsis and the Hutus, that has produced terrible due famines to the progressive abandonment of the earths cultivated and bad hygienic-sanitary conditions, also because of the death of about ten people a day.
It produces coffee, the and cotton, nevertheless it is one of the poorest countries of the world and the situation you/he/she has dramatically increased from the wars, that have determined great flows of fugitive toward Tanzania, Uganda e Rwanda.

 

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