Burundi, of which the international airport in Bujumbura ( as of 2005 ) was the country ’ s primary and only paved airport.

* Kalemie, Kulundu-Uvira and Moba on Lake Tanganyika to Kigoma ( Tanzania ), Bujumbura ( Burundi ) and Mpulungu ( Zambia ).

Small ferries link communities along the Tanzanian shore ( some with no road access ), and commercial traffic runs between Kigoma and Bujumbura, Burundi and Mpulungu, Zambia, including the MV Liemba.

Bujumbura (; ) is the capital and largest city and main port of Burundi and ships most of the country's chief export, coffee, as well as cotton, skins, and tin ore.

Ferries sail from Bujumbura to Kigoma in Tanzania, while the city is also home to the Bujumbura International Airport and the University of Burundi.

The city's name was changed from Usumbura to Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in 1962.

Since independence, Bujumbura has been the scene of frequent fighting between the country's two main ethnic groups, with Hutu militias opposing the Tutsi-dominated Burundi army.

Air Burundi, the national airline of Burundi, has its head office in Bujumbura.

The University of Burundi is located in Bujumbura.

* On 4 Dec 2000, flight from Brussels to Bujumbura, Burundi, en-route to Nairobi, Kenya, was struck by machine gun fire, as it approached Bujumbura, injuring a passenger and crew member.

Ntaryamira was born in the Mageyo zone's commune of Mubimbi, Bujumbura Rural Province, in what was then the Belgian-dominated United Nations Trust Territory of Burundi.

* Bujumbura, Burundi – July 24, 1998 – One Italian World Food Programme ( WFP ) staff member killed in the capital.

Some in Burundi claim the location of the famous meeting is a few miles south of the capital Bujumbura.

* 1982 – 1985: Deputy Chief of Mission ( DCM ), Bujumbura, Burundi

Bujumbura Rural is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Gitega ( formerly Kitega ) is the second largest city in Burundi, lying east of Bujumbura.

In March 2007, President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza announced that Burundi is planning to bring back its capital city to Gitega, saying that it is in a better location for a capital than Bujumbura.

Beginning his career in 1964, Stockwell spent six years in Africa, Chief of Base in the Katanga during the Bob Denard invasion in 1968, then Chief of Station in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1970, before being transferred to Vietnam to oversee intelligence operations in the Tay Ninh province and was awarded the CIA Medal of Merit for keeping his post open until the last days of the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Prince Godefroid Kamatari, ( 1957-20 August 2005 ), was a grandson of mwami HM Mutaga IV Mbikije of Burundi, and a son of HRH Prince Ignace Kamatari ( d. 1964 in Bujumbura ) and his second wife Princess Agrippine.

For three years starting in 1969 to 1971 he was a lecturer on Public International Law, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law in Bujumbura, Burundi.

Operations wound down with the last operational Boeing 707 flight flown on 10 July 2007 to Bujumbura, Kinshasa and Kindu.

In mid-April 2008, FNL rebels shelled the capital, Bujumbura, while fighting killed at least 33.

The Titanic Express massacre was an event which took place on 28 December 2000, in which 21 people were killed in an attack on a bus, the “ Titanic Express ”, close to the Burundi capital Bujumbura.

Bujumbura is governed by a community council and community administrator.

Mutara died on July 25, 1959, after being treated for a headache by a Belgian physician in Bujumbura on the way back from a consultation with Belgian officials, in what Rwandan conspiracy theorists consider to have been an assassination.

There is a lake port called Kalundu at the southern end of the town, which provides links by boat to Kalemie, Kigoma in Tanzania, and Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi.

The town is linked by road to Bukavu and Bujumbura.

Kalemie Port is also used by boat services to the northern Lake Tanganyika ports of Kalundu-Uvira and Bujumbura in Burundi, and southwards to Moba and Mpulungu in Zambia.

The province surrounds the capital city Bujumbura.

Numerous families fled to the relative safety of the Burundian capital of Bujumbura.

Nkurunziza was born in 1963 in Burundi's capital city of Bujumbura.

Central Bujumbura, capital of Burundi

She is originally from the capital city of Bujumbura.

Bujumbura ’ s average annual temperature is.

Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.

The main airport in the country is Bujumbura International Airport.

The city center is a colonial town with a large market, the national stadium, a large mosque, and the cathedral for the Archdiocese of Bujumbura.

Bujumbura grew from a small village after it became a military post in German East Africa in 1889.

Bujumbura today stands as an undeveloped city, but remains to develop along with its country.

It is also its own province, the Bujumbura Mairie Province.

Bujumbura features a tropical savanna climate with distinct wet and dry seasons.

Despite being located close to the equator, Bujumbura is not nearly as warm as one might expect due to its altitude.

There are two ferries which carry passengers and cargo along the eastern shore of the lake-the MV Liemba between Kigoma and Mpulungu and the MV Mwongozo, which runs between Kigoma and Bujumbura.

His tomb was constructed on the hills overlooking Bujumbura and consists of a memorial with three arches.

He entered school in Bujumbura, but after an abortive Hutu rebellion in 1972, he and thousands of other ethnic Hutus fled the country.