61.   Neighbouring Rwanda, which has the same ethnic mix of a Hutu majority and a Tutsi minority, plunged into civil war in April last year.

62.   Rwanda has the same ethnic mix as Burundi.

63.   Rwanda and Burundi share a similar ethnic mix, with Hutus, mainly peasant farmers, making up the bulk of the population while Tutsis are a powerful minority.

64.   Rwanda has a similar ethnic mix to Burundi.

65.   Rwanda and Burundi share a similar ethnic mix, with Hutus forming the bulk of the population while Tutsis are a powerful minority.

66.   Since then, Burundi, which shares the ethnic mix Rwanda had before its three-month civil war last year, has been on the brink.

67.   That triggered massacres in Rwanda which horrified the world, and also destabilised neighbouring Burundi, which has a similar ethnic mix.

68.   The border is porous because much of it is covered with dense forest, but Burundi is a tinderbox too, with the same ethnic mix as pre-war Rwanda.

69.   The ethnic mix in Afghanistan is another potentially destabilising factor.

70.   The entire country is unsafe, and fears are growing of a bloodbath similar to the civil war in neighbouring Rwanda, where the ethnic mix was virtually identical.