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Burundi: Peoples
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With an annual growth rate of 2.7 percent, Burundi's population has been expanding far faster than its economy, resulting in a negative growth rate per person. Burundi's weak economy and geographic isolation have left the country overwhelmingly rural (with more than 90 percent of the people living in the countryside) and almost completely dependent on domestic food production.
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The human rights situation in Burundi remains poor, with widespread abuses committed by all parties, particularly in the rural areas surrounding the capital. Tens of thousands of people remain internally displaced. Killing of civilians, reprisal killings, torture, rape, theft, illegal and arbitrary detention, and forced labour have been reported. Rape and gang rape against women, girls and boys is on the increase. The judicial system has little capacity to act in timely and impartial manner, and impunity is pervasive. The indigenous Twa (Pygmy) people remain marginalised economically, socially, and politically.
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Anglican Relief and Development currently has two projects in Burundi that can address the urgent assistance needed and are prepared to help with this desperate situation. One distributes food to starving people in the newly formed diocese of Muyinga, and the other provides grinding mills for cassava and corn in the diocese of Makamba.
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Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1962, Burundi has gone through periods of ethnic conflict. More than half a million people have been killed and many more have fled to settle in neighbouring countries.
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