Stéphanie Mbanzendore
Stéphanie Mbanzendore is a feminist activist from Burundi, who has been based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands since 2003. She is the founder of the organization Burundian Women for Peace and Development, and the chairperson of the Multicultural Women Peacemakers Network, and is involved in several other women's rights and peace activism bodies. Early life Stéphanie Mbanzendore was born and raised in Burundi, where she was later educated and worked. Since 2003, she has been based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Career Mbanzendore is the founder of the organization Burundian Women for Peace and Development (BWPD), based in the Netherlands, which targets women and young people, and is active in the fields of peace, conflict resolution and HIV/Aids prevention, particularly in Burundi, and also working with women in Rwanda and Congo. In 2009, BWPD built a Centre for Peace in Burundi, "to increase community involvement and build a place for sustainable dialogues, workshops and tra ...
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Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and East Africa. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border. The capital cities are Gitega and Bujumbura, the latter being the country's largest city. The Great Lakes Twa, Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent Kingdom of Burundi, kingdom, until the beginning of the 20th century, when it became a German colony. After the First World War and German Revolution of 1918–19, Germany's defeat, the League of Nations "mandated" the territory to Belgium. After the Secon ...
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