03-02-2018 ■ Non issuance of tourist visa at the airport is one of the main challenges that the touristic and hotels sector faces today. This was said during an exchange meeting between public and private partners operating in this sector. An anonymous private partner who owns a hotel asks the national (...)

03-01-2018 ■ Every March 1st, the world celebrates the Civil Protection World Day. On the eve of this celebration, the government of Burundi reminds everyone of their responsibility for disaster risk reduction. Serges Ntakavura, Assistant to the ministry of public security, says recurrent disasters cause damage at an alarming level. “From (...)

02-28-2018 ■ In a press conference held this Tuesday 27 February 2018, Burundi First Deputy President says the government still maintains its decision not to sign the European Union economic partnership agreements. Gaston Sindimwo says that after his return from the 19th summit of the EAC Heads of state that was (...)

02-27-2018 ■ In a note released on February 23, 2018, the International Federation for Human Rights-FIDH denounces the human right violations that prevail in Burundi due to the ongoing process of the constitutional referendum. “People, including minors were forced to register for vote in the upcoming constitutional referendum and 2020 elections,” (...)

02-26-2018 ■ The anti-corruption civil society organization “Transparency International” has recently released a report on the corruption perception index of the year 2017. This index ranked 180 countries and territories according to their perceived levels of public sector corruption. It uses a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is highly (...)

02-22-2018 ■ Members of SYNAPA Union at Kamenge Neuropsychiatric Center have begun a three-day strike this 21 February. Mental patients say they fall victim of the situation. In the morning of this Wednesday at Kamenge Neuropsychiatric Center- CNPK, the only center which treats mental patients in Burundi located in the north (...)

02-21-2018 ■ H.E. Dr. Eng. Seleshi Bekele, Minster of Water, Irrigation and Electricity of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) Ethiopia is hosting the 2018 Regional Nile Day Celebration in commemoration of the establishment of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) on February 22, 1999 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Participants (...)

02-21-2018 ■ While the president of the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has reported the voters’ registration records at 112, 01 %, politicians from CNARED, the coalition of the opposition parties in exile qualify them as false and ambiguous. Pancrace Cimpaye, CNARED spokesman, says these records are not true and show how (...)

02-20-2018 ■ A delegation of 24 East African Legislative Assembly MPs from the six member countries of East African Community has arrived in Burundi since February 17, 2018.In a press conference held this Monday 19, the head of the delegation has acknowledged the peaceful situation that prevails in the country and (...)

02-19-2018 ■ The health sector faces a variety of challenges among which, Burundians’ mentality. Sahabo Christophe, Kira Hospital representative, says health should be a priority. “Most of Burundians do not value health until they are seriously sick”. He said that during the celebration of the third edition of Kira Medical Awareness (...)