Responsibilities of the candidate will include: Serving as the IRC representative in-charge of the Rutuna Field Office (approx. 30 national staff); and Supervising needs assessments, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all projects in Rutuna Province (currently water/sanitation, hygiene promotion, and the Roll Back Malaria plan).

A summit of African leaders trying to rescue Burundi's peace process ended on Tuesday without agreement on a power-sharing solution to a decade of civil war. An estimated 300,000 people have been killed in 10 years of conflict between the Tutsi-led army and Hutu rebels fighting to end the traditional political dominance of the Tutsi minority.

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has called on the Burundian government to immediately end its suspension of Isanganiro radio station for giving air time to anti-government rebels. "This decision deprives people of news and is especially damaging at a time when the country is starting new talks to re-establish peace," said the organisation in its letter to Communications Minister Albert Mbonerane.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) began on Monday distributing food aid to an estimated 15,000 internally displaced Burundians in Mubimbi Commune, Bujumbura Rural Province, an official told IRIN on Monday.