Burundi: Fear in Bujumbura

"Saturday morning, after a night of hell under bombs, rockets and hails of bullets, I manage to get to the airport. I meet a long column of soldiers. A whole battalion, it seems to me, goes up to the front at Gikungu, East of Bujumbura. God, how young they are! Teenagers. Sad. Drawn faces. Without the fighters’ banter that is seen with other soldiers in wartime," writes Chris Harahagazwe in the latest edition of the Peace and Conflict Monitor, after spending some time in Bujumbura in July last year.