Between Saturday, November 7 and Monday November 9, 2015 more than 10 people died.

The upsurge of violence in Burundi characterized by a spectre of killings since President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his plans last April to run for the third term  for the presidency,  has attracted worldwide condemnation and strained relations between Burundi and some of its neighbours as well as the international community.

On Saturday, November 7 night, BBC reported, gunmen shot at least nine people dead in a bar in Bujumbura.  Eyewitnesses reportedly said they saw seven bodies lying on the floor. Two others managed to flee but later died in hospital. Yesterday, Monday, November 9, 2015, at least two people were reportedly killed and a policeman wounded in gun battles in  Bujumbura as security forces searched opposition strongholds for weapons. "Two people, including a student who came out of his house, were killed by the officers firing in all directions," ENCA reported citing a witness said, who asked not to be named.

Faced with the rising wave of violence, Rwandan President Paul Kagame whose country suffers most from the crisis by tackling refugee problems, has condemned the upsurge in violence."People are being killed every day, bodies are found on the streets... Leaders are spending time killing people,” BBC quoted him as saying. "It is sad that the African continent has a disease, to an extent that I will be blamed for meddling in another country, that I should be diplomatic about it or I deal with it politically.

But that can't be, I am being frank and open," President Kagame is further quoted as saying last Friday. Reports say Burundi's authorities have so far not publicly reacted. Despite that, in the past, Burundi has accused Rwanda of training rebels seeking to destabilise the country, something Rwanda denies.

Burundi’s President Nkurunziza gave the November 7, 2015 deadline to armed groups to lay down their weapons and as compensation enjoy an amnesty.  Reports say after the expiry of the ultimatum, security forces have entered and are carrying out house-to-house searches in neighbourhood of Bujumbura seen as opposition strongholds.  The activities of authorities made the UN to condemn what it termed "inflammatory rhetoric" by officials in Burundi. The Brussels-based International Crisis Group has reportedly said the language was “chillingly similar” to that used in Rwanda before the genocide of 1994. While condemnations continued, the UN Security Council yesterday reportedly discussed the Burundian crisis.

Uncertainty surrounds life in Burundi.