[The Conversation Africa] Since 2015, crippling sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) and the US have held back the economy of Burundi, a landlocked country of 12.5 million people in east Africa. The sanctions were imposed in response to the government's violation of human rights as well as violence. We asked professor of international studies David Kiwuwa to weigh up Burundi's prospects now that the sanctions have been lifted.