Burundi

From 1996-1997, The Carter Center worked to find a political solution to the crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa following the Rwandan genocide in the early 1990s.

Waging Peace

Following the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the presidents of Uganda and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) asked President Carter to facilitate a meeting between themselves and the presidents of Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania – countries collectively known as the Great Lakes region of Africa – to negotiate a regional initiative to combat the climate of genocide, repatriate 1.7 million Rwandan refugees, and curb violence in the region.

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