Bujumbura
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Bujumbura, formerly Usumbura, is the economic capital, former political capital, largest city and main port of Burundi. It ships most of the country's chief export, coffee, as well as cotton and tin o
Bujumbura From Cathedral
Burundi monument to heros of independence
Cathédrale Regina Mundi de Bujumbura, 2024 4
Bujumbura Burundi Lac Tanganyika 13
Ruanda-Urundi
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Ruanda-Urundi, later Rwanda-Burundi, was a mandate and later trust territory ruled by Belgium between 1916 and 1962.
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…German East Africa in 1889. After World War I it was made the administrative center and de facto capital of the Belgian League of Nations mandate of Ruanda-Urundi. The name was changed from Usumbura to Bujumbura upon Burundi's independence in 1962. Since independence, Bujumbura was the scene of frequent fighting…
A Belgian Congo stamp overprinted for the Belgian Occupied East African Territories in 1916
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Wisdom at Butare (formerly Astrida) in Ruanda. Catholicism expanded rapidly under the Belgian mandate.
Ruandan labour migrants at the Kisanga copper mine in Katanga (Belgian Congo) in c. 1930
Monument in Bujumbura commemorating Burundi's independence on 1 July 1962