Burundi was ruled by another country.
Burundi . For more than 200 of those years , Burundi was an independent kingdom , until the beginning of the 20th century , when Germany colonised the region . Both Germans and Belgians ruled Burundi and Rwanda as a European colony known as Ruanda-Urundi . The Kingdom of Burundi ( Royaume du Burundi ) or Kingdom of Urundi ( Royaume d'Urundi ) was a polity ruled by a traditional monarch in modern-day Republic of Burundi in the Great Lakes region of East Africa .