Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Burundi.
GP265 Refugees from Burundi taken by Sarah Erington, GNS, July 1972
GP266 Waiuitsi cattlemen and their cattle
GP267 Negative of a child victim of a massacre in Burundi

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on the aftermath of the assassination of the Prime Minister of Burundi, Pierre Ngendandumwe; Tutsis and Hutu ethnic groups in [Burundi], JK [Jomo Kenyatta], Ny [Julius Nyerere] and [Milton] Obote on the death of WC [Winston Churchill]; and JK [Jomo Kenyatta] at an meeting of OAU (Organisation of African Unity) held January 1965 regarding foreign military intervention in the Republic of the Congo [including a timeline of events from September 1964 - January 1965].

Names featured include: JK [Jomo Kenyatta] and Pierre Ngendandumwe.

Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive’s Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: the setting up of a commission in Katanga; Katangan independence day; Moïse Tshombe, copper production and the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK); the UN in Kantanga; Kasai provinces; disturbances at the Katanga-Kasai border; UN and international troops in Katanga; Belgian troops in Rwanda and Burundi; reports of disturbances in Burimba and Kigali; Congo-Brazzaville; the Burundi government; the new government in the Congo; relations between Burundi and Rwanda; the economy in Burundi; government ministers in [Burundi ?]; the Economic Union; continued Belgian involvement in Burundi; Ugandan refugees; Mwanza and coop unions; central and local governments, the economy and independence in Uganda; the EACSO [East African Common Services Organisation]; local government and the civil service in Tanganyika; ZAPU and the Southern Rhodesian government; and the repatriation of Buluba people by the UN in the Congo.

Names featured include: Moïse Tshombe, Jean Back, Sir Derek Dodson, Lord Home, [Robert] McNamara, André Lubaya, Barthélemy Mukenge, Patrice Lumumba, Congo-Brazzaville, Benjamin Turok, Michel Rwagasana, André Muhirwa, Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, Mr. Muhirwa, [Jean-Baptiste] Ntidendereza, Joseph Biroli, Colonel Logiest, Paul Bomani, Mayanza-Nkangi, [Grace] Ibingira, [Cuthbert Joseph] Obwangor, [Milton] Obote, George Magezi, Sir Edgar Whitehead, Ronald Isaac Sibanda and Joshua Nkomo.

Transcribed by Sylvia Stirling in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Notebook, mostly written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: NU-TANU; the exclusion of the Republic of the Congo from the Organization of African Unity conference in Cairo; economic development in Kenya; criticism of the British press on Kenya; the Council of National Liberation (in the Republic of the Congo) (CNL); [Rwandan refugees]; the British High Commission and relations between Britain and Kenya; Farming in kenya; and notes from the [third FAO Regional Conference for Africa held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 1964].

Names featured include: [Martin] Shikuku, Moïse Tshombe, [Jaramogi Oginga] Odinga, JK [Jomo Kenyatta], [Sir Geoffrey] De Freitas, Mr Pollard and [Kojo] Botsio.

Transcribed by Lauraine Newcombe in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive’s Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Notebook written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on Ruanda-Urundi [now Republic of Rwanda and Republic of Burundi] including: religion, population; language; the UN; local and national government; elections; EEC development fund; changes to the land systems; Tutsi refugees; trade; Hutus and farming; and independence.

Names featured include: Charles Mutara III Rudahigwa, [Mwambutsa IV Bangiricenge], Grégoire Kayibanda, Joseph Gitera, Anastase Makuza, Balthasar Bicamumpaka, Augustin Ndayambaje, Joseph de Man, Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, Louis Rwagasore, [Joseph] Biroli, Jean-Baptiste Ntidendereza, [André] Perraudin, and Bishop Brazier.

Also includes a telegram receipt which has not been digitised.

Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.