US still demands that Burundi's Nkurunziza stand down

by KPFA Weekend News/Ann Garrison

Mon, Jul 20, 2015 2:35PM

The regional tensions are no doubt real, the danger of mass violence great, but the African Great Lakes Region is so resource rich that the resource interests of the world’s industrial and military power elites are inevitably in play behind the news.

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Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza

Burundi shares a border with Rwanda.
And, like Rwanda, Uganda,and Tanzania,
it shares a border with the eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo, a
vast storehouse of strategic mineral reserves.

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§Resource rich?

by Mike Novack

Tue, Jul 21, 2015 3:35AM

I'm afraid you don't understand the ecological crisis our planet faces.

Burundi is close to being a "basket case". With a population density ~1000/sq mi it has been almost entirely deforested, and erosion rapidly destroying the agricultural land.

Neighboring Rwanda is as densely inhabited, but perhaps a little better off in terms of habitat destruction. But there is little long term hope anywhere at 1000 humans per square mile. Far beyond any possibilities of sustainability.

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