FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
Politics of Burundi takes place in a framework of a transitional presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Burundi is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
Burundi is the poorest country in the world, in terms of GDP per capita: US$106 as of 2005.
As of July 2006, Burundi is projected to have an estimated population of 8,090,068, approximately half of whom are aged 14 or less.
Despite positive changes and a genuine feeling in Burundi that peace is finally possible after 12 years of civil war, sporadic clashes between government and rebel forces continue.
The climate in Burundi varies widely depending on whether you are in the hot and steamy lowlands around Lake Tanganyika, where temperatures average 30°C (86F), or the more mountainous north, where the usual temperature is a much milder 20°C (68°F).
The original Burundi folk, the Twa Pygmies, were gradually displaced from about AD 1000 by the Hutu, mostly farmers of Bantu stock.
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