Like its neighbour Rwanda, Burundi has long been torn...

Like its neighbour Rwanda, Burundi has long been torn apart by ethnic conflict which has seen hundreds of thousands killed in sporadic massacres.
In 1993, armed groups drawn from the Hutu majority rose up against the Tutsi-dominated government and army.
A decade later, the war smoulders on and more than 300,000 people have been killed. Several peace accords between the transitional government and rebel groups have been signed and broken. A fresh rounds of talks, brokered by South Africa, and billed as a final agreement, was slated for October 2003.