Burundi

Oxfam International is withdrawing from 18 countries and laying off almost a third of its program staff amid financial pressures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. More cost cutting is expected, as Oxfam — one of the world’s best-known development charities — conducts an organizational restructuring.

Burundians have begun voting in a tense presidential vote, with the election commission calling for a peaceful vote despite simmering political violence and the coronavirus pandemic. Burundians stood in long lines outside polling stations, which opened shortly after 6am local time, to elect not just their new president, but parliamentarians and local councillors, who in turn appoint the members of the Senate.