POPULATION:	1.5 million
LITERACY RATE:	15% to20%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:	varies
LANGUAGES:	Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
ETHNIC GROUPS:	Hutu, Tutsi
BORDERING COUNTRIES:	Rwanda, Tanzania, Zaire

BURUNDI- Burundi has been plagued by civil war for the last 60 years.  One president is elected, then assissinated and it all starts over again.  The Tutsi's in minority, and usually the ones in charge, have a history of slaughtering the Hutu's, often in the thousands.  It is doubtful the warring between the two tribes will ever end and has dirupted all aspects of the country.  There is no established government or law, no military, there is no trade, there is no industry, there is nothing for its people, and nothing to attract anyone else.

Bloodshed is still rampant, and roving groups enact violent massacres on each other.  Many have returned to traditional tribal life.  guns are common, ammunition is not, many have reverted to using spears and other traditional weapons.  Burundi once had a semi-thriving agriculture and industrial resources, but internal strife has left it in shambles.  The neighboring countries, and in fact the rest of the world, seems to be merely waiting for the country to completely destrow itself before moving in and taking over whats left.   All foreign aid used to come, but violence against relief workers leading to the slaughter of 150 men and women of the Peace Corps in 2008 caused every last foreign zen to vacate.