Word: bujumbura
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...after spending six years in exile. Ntare came home after receiving assurances from the man who deposed him, President Michel Micombero, who is also a Tutsi, that he would be free to live in Burundi "as an ordinary citizen." But as soon as Ntare reached the Burundi capital of Bujumbura, he was whisked off by helicopter to the old royal capital of Kitega and placed under house arrest in his former palace. When thousands of Hutu tribesmen revolted a month later, they stormed the palace and killed the trapped Tutsi King...
...precisely the area of advising the busy foreign policy professional on the nature and content of foreign politics that the scholar can make his greatest substantive contribution. The professional diplomat is the man who knows where, in Paris or in Phnom Penh, in Bonn or in Bujumbura, to find the door to which diplomatic notes should be delivered. He has a pretty good idea of what will happen to the note after it is slipped through the mail slot in the door. But he cannot be expected to have a really deep understanding of the internal political and economic...
...announced that he had decided to chuck the monarchy altogether and rule the country himself. Fear immediately arose among his neighbors that he might invite back the Red Chinese, who were expelled by the old King in 1965 for meddling in Burundi affairs. Soon the capital of Bujumbura began to fill up with leftist emissaries from Nasser and from Guinea's ambitious Sékou Tour...
...exams, flew to Burundi, ostensibly to prepare for his father's return in late July. Instead, Charles fired off three telegrams to his father, announcing that he had seized power. Burundi's 2,750,000 inhabitants got the word through a radio broadcast from the capital of Bujumbura, in which Charles denounced the country's politicians for "dereliction of duty, stagnation, hesitation and nepotism," declared that he had dismissed the government and taken over as chief of state...
...jurists had a special reason for outrage. Alarmed by reports of mass killings, they had received permission last November from the Justice Minister of the King, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, to send their own investigator to the Burundian capital of Bujumbura. Their man showed up in December, but he did not hear until later that 22 executions took place while he was actually in town...