10-10-2016 ■ No death penalty in Burundi since 2009. But extrajudicial killings are common. Additionally, there are signs that the penalty might be reintroduced. As the world celebrates the World Day against Death Penalty, the abolition of the penalty in Burundi is threatened by the prevalence of extrajudicial killings and hints (...)

10-07-2016 ■ “I am very relieved to hear we will get clean water. We’ve been longing for it for a long time. We live in a seriously health-threatening situation here”, said the overjoyed Quentin Marc Ngendakumana, the local head of Kagwema area. He was speaking at an event inaugurating the construction (...)

10-06-2016 ■ A second round of mobilization for malnutrition screening in children under 5 in the provinces of municipal and rural Bujumbura has started this Wednesday. The repetition of the screening activities is intended to get reliable data to help address that serious issue. Actors in the fight against malnutrition in (...)

10-04-2016 ■ At a press conference that Evariste Ndayishimiye, the secretary general of the ruling party, held yesterday after his visit to Benjamin Mkapa the facilitator in the inter-Burundian dialogue, he said he asked him to help in the repatriation of exiled politicians by reassuring them and convincing their host countries (...)

10-01-2016 ■ “We call on all entrepreneurs to respect commitments made in their business plan submitted during the application for eligibility certificate to the advantages of investment code”, said Didace Ngendakumana, the director of Investment Promotion Agency (API). “Offenders will be punished according to the law and regulations of the nation”, (...)

09-29-2016 ■ Many reforms have been introduced recently in the Burundi educational system from basic to higher education. This school year 2016-2017, the first class of the basic school system adopted in 2013 in primary and secondary education started their first year of post-basic school. The schooling system provides trade learning (...)

09-29-2016 ■ Actors in Burundi tourism acknowledge that the sector has alarmingly declined following the crisis that has plagued the country since last year. “Tourism has extremely declined over the last months”, says Denis Nshimirimana, the president of the Chamber of Hotel and Tourism. He explains that many hotels have laid (...)

09-28-2016 ■ François Ngeze, the president of the national Association of Private Schools (known by its French acronym UPEP), decries the measure by the ministry of education requiring those schools to abide by the same regulations concerning post-basic school placement as public schools. He argues that if private schools admit in (...)

09-26-2016 ■ Contrary to plan, the School of Excellence programme will open for 7th graders only. It will not open for the first year of the post-basic school starting with this new school year 2016-2017. The Minister of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research gives two reasons for the decision: the (...)

09-22-2016 ■ To protect their children sent out of school for an entire school year from harm and distractions, parents ask the government to think of a way to keep those pupils in a school atmosphere. Amidst the worry of seeing the life and future of their children jeopardized, parents from (...)