Ruanda-Urundi followed with its independence two years later.

Belgium was given a trusteeship over the territory, known as Ruanda-Urundi, beginning in 1917.

Two years later Ruanda-Urundi also became free.

Workers from Ruanda-Urundi land at Elizabethville's airport to work in the mines.

However, the Belgians allowed Ruanda-Urundi to continue its kingship dynasty.

In 1960, Ruanda-Urundi's larger neighbour gained its independence.

Ruanda-Urundi became the nations of Rwanda and Burundi.

The country claimed independence on July 1, 1962, and legally changed its name from Ruanda-Urundi to Burundi.

Ruanda-Urundi gained independence in 1962 and its two regions, Rwanda and Burundi, separated.

In Ruanda-Urundi this was Kirundi.

The country was formerly a part of the Belgian territory of Ruanda-Urundi and before 1962 used those postage stamps.

During the war Belgium took over the of Ruanda-Urundi (modern day Rwanda and Burundi).

The western kingdoms of Ruanda-Urundi were stripped from the old colonies and given to British-administered Tanganyika.

After World War I, it was made the administrative center of the Belgian controlled Ruanda-Urundi.

Royal Air Burundi was an airline from Ruanda-Urundi and was based in Usumbura.

Colonial heads of Burundi (Ruanda-Urundi)

It became Rwanda-Urundi (or "Ruanda-Urundi") (modern day Rwanda and Burundi).

In 1923, the German colonial possession of Ruanda-Urundi came under Belgian control as a League of Nations mandate.

In 1924, as the League of Nations issued a formal mandate that granted Belgium full control over the area, the area officially became Ruanda-Urundi.

The United Kingdom and Belgium signed an agreement regarding the border between Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi in 1924.

The Belgian-sponsored Tutsi monarchy survived until 1959, when Kigeli V was exiled from the colony (then called Ruanda-Urundi).

This same year new convert Dunduzu Chisiza left Malawi to help introduce the religion to Rwanda (formerly part of Ruanda-Urundi).

With the concurrence of the Supreme Council, the United Kingdom transferred the provinces of Ruanda-Urundi, in the northwest, to Belgium.

Then, for many years - till 1957 - he defends the work done by Belgium in Ruanda-Urundi in the United Nations Trusteeship Council.

The same year a Jewish community center was established named the Communauté du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi.