She set a course record of 1:08:52 in 2011 and finished this year's race in 1:09:09, 3 seconds ahead of Burundi's Diane Nukuri-Johnson.
Burundi's government is also hampered by the sanctions imposed by its neighbours after the 1996 coup.
Colonel Pierre Buyoya, Burundi's current ruler, said in a Christmas speech that security had improved.
However, Burundi's Tutsis would fear for their own safety if the nation's army was commanded by Hutus.
Burundi's increasingly vibrant, independent media and non-governmental organisations are likely to be watching carefully for any similar tendencies.
In 1995, a lone gunman shot dead Burundi's Energy and Mines Minister Ernest Kabushemeye in the nation's capital, Bujumbura.
Yet Burundi's Hutus were radicalised by the overthrow of their democratically elected government.
Frodebu won Burundi's last election in June 1993, but its leader, Melchior Ndadaye, was assassinated after four months in office.
After months of international pressure, Burundi's government agreed on January 19th to dismantle ten of its camps (out of about 50).
The rebels, split by internal rifts, tend to hit hard and then melt back into the bush or across Burundi's borders.
All this allows Pierre Buyoya, Burundi's ruler, to turn the tables on his neighbours, refusing to talk until sanctions are gone.
The sect has had a tense relationship with Burundi's government since its formation, says Florentine Kwizera of the BBC's Great Lakes Service.
Since 1993, when Burundi's first elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, was murdered by army officers, 200, 000 people have been killed, estimates the United Nations.
Mr Annan warned the Security Council that Burundi's Tutsi elite and the Hutu majority were "locked in implacable hostility to one another" with steadily rising violence.
Berhane Aregaye put Eritrea in the lead after four minutes but second half strikes by Allain Ndizeye and Calude Nahimana secured Burundi's passage to the semi final.
At the end of last year, one group got close to Burundi's capital and was still there last weekend, the government's troops unable to drive it away.
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Burundi's ambassador to Kenya, Stanislas Nsabuwanka, says another reason for the delay is the failure to find accommodation for many thousands of former Hutu rebels into the Tutsi-dominated army.
Combined with a strong resolution against discrimination in soccer and the first election of a woman (Burundi's Lydia Nsekera) to the executive committee, FIFA felt it was turning a corner.
Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's ex-president, hoped to call all parties together for talks and to find a formula for dropping the sanctions imposed by Burundi's neighbours after the coup in 1996.
As the peace talks supposedly move into their final phase, the war between the mainly Tutsi army and the Hutu rebels continues unabated (roughly 83% of Burundi's people are Hutu, 15% Tutsi).
He said the attack, repelled by government soldiers, signalled the growing presence of Hutu rebels in the region as well as the complicity with rebel activity of Hutu peasants, who make up more than 80% of Burundi's population.
"Nineteen bullets hit the car, " said David Rothrock, CRS's Burundi director.
The BBC's Rob Walker in the Burundi capital, Bujumbura, says the real challenge will come after elections.
Saturday's other Group A match between Burundi and Somalia was postponed to Sunday because of the late arrival of the latter.
Burundi will be waiting for Sudan in Wednesday's semi final, after they swept aside Eritrea 2-1.
They also cited the role of African Union troops, from countries including Uganda, Burundi and Kenya, in supporting the Somali government's fight against al-Shabaab.
The road would be part of a long-planned link between Tanzania's coast and Lake Victoria, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But the final transitional federal government made "unmistakable" progress, Clinton said, with Somali security forces supported by an African Union mission and troops from Uganda, Burundi, Kenya and Djibouti driving Al Shabaab from the nation's cities and towns.
In partnership with the World Conference of Religions for Peace, a pilot scheme has been undertaken to reinforce Interreligious Women's Associations, through training-of-trainers workshops, in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
While support for Nigeria is the essential purpose of Mr Clinton's African visit, he has also accepted an invitation to Arusha, Tanzania from the mediator of the Burundi conflict, former South African President Nelson Mandela.
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