UN Soldiers to be Deployed in Burundi as South Sudan Continues to Bleed

Burundi

The UN Security Council authorized the deployment of police to Burundi to help bring peace as well as trying to put to an end to the massive human rights violations currently happening in the country.

Burundi plunged into a political turmoil when President Pierre Nkurunzinza decided to run for a third term during an election against the constitutional requirement of two-term limit.

He won in an election that was boycotted by the opposition and blood started flowing into the streets as police took to a killing expedition.

Thousands of people have taken refuge in the neighboring Tanzania and almost all the institutions that had been established in that country are on the brink of collapsing.

The economy of Burundi is now in shambles. People have no access to clean water as well as medication. Children are no longer in schools and the few who are there have refused to take up lessons since some of the textbooks contain the portrait of the president.

There is no media freedom in Burundi for almost all the media houses have been closed down and journalists arrested.

South Sudan

The situation in South Sudan continue to remain volatile as foreigners continue to close down businesses and going back to their countries.

Early the month of July, more than 270 people were killed and hundreds others injured when soldier allied to the President Salvar Kiir and those allied to the Vice President Riek Machar clashed in the capital Juba.

Most financial institutions have closed down and the currency has now depreciated by more than 300 percent leading to a series of losses for investors.

President Salvar Kiir has vehemently rejected efforts by IGAD to bring in troops to help restore peace saying that his government has already contained the situation.

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe continues to suffer from the worst drought ever that is affecting both animals and human beings.

The mineral rich country is economically suffering with the government now barely unable to sustain the salaries of all the civil servants.

The government had early this year called on other countries to purchase the wild animals that had started dying as a result of the gnawing drought.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is now the oldest president in the world at the age of 92 and still says he is able and capable of running for another term.