12-11-2017 ■ For the 2018 fiscal year, domestic resources in the general state budget account for 69.6% against 30.4% of donations. Tax revenue constitutes 60.9%, non-tax revenue 5% and exceptional revenue 3.6%. OLUCOME denounces very high taxes. The recently submitted budget bill for 2018 is judged as unrealistic and unreliable by (...)

12-08-2017 ■ The International Anti-Corruption Day 2017 will be celebrated this Saturday 9 December while Burundi is still threatened by corruption. The ministry of good governance urges the population to get involved in the fight against it. Serges Ndayiragije, Minister of Good Governance says corruption still hinders the country’s development despite (...)

12-07-2017 ■ Burundi is looking into the adoption of a pharmaceutical bill and establishment of a food and medicine regulatory authority to be in line with EAC standards. Health professionals and pharmacists say this will improve drug regulation. The bill comes to replace a decree existing since 1980. The later presents (...)

12-06-2017 ■ The Ministry of Education has recently decided to shorten holiday periods in primary and secondary schools. Education professionals say this decision may negatively affect school results. Jeanine Ihorihoze, Managing Director at the Education Ministry, said there is a need to increase the teaching period in order to complete the (...)

12-05-2017 ■ While the world celebrates the Volunteer Day, Burundian young volunteers still face different challenges since the submitted bill on youth and volunteerism has not yet been approved. 504 is the number of volunteers who have been recruited since 2014 with the implementation of volunteerism programs by the ministry of (...)

12-05-2017 ■ Non communicable diseases-NCDs still kill and threaten Burundians silently. Burundi Non communicable Disease Alliance has organised a two-day- workshop to raise awareness of how the diseases can be prevented and controlled. The four main groups of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (heart or cerebrovascular accidents), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (chronic (...)

11-30-2017 ■ One thief with a defensive grenade was killed by a police agent in the early morning of this 30 November 2017 in Gasekebuye area, east of Bujumbura, national police say. People in the neighbourhood say the locality is rife with theft. A man was shot dead by a police (...)

11-29-2017 ■ While the World AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1st, USA Ambassador Ann Casper visited Kamenge Military Hospital -the embassy’s partner, to see which achievements have so far been made to fight against HIV/AIDS. She encourages people to do HIV test. The US Embassy has invested more than USD (...)

11-28-2017 ■ The National Council for the Respect of the Arusha Agreement (CNARED), the main platform of Burundi opposition in exile, asks the facilitation to postpone the on-going dialogue. In a statement issued by CNARED on 27 November, Pancrace Cimpaye, CNARED spokesman, asks the facilitation to postpone the 4th session of (...)

11-27-2017 ■ An average of 120 cases per month is the number registered by Seruka, a local NGO dedicated to fighting against gender based violence. Since 2003, Seruka Centre has received 19,028 victims of gender based violence and most of them are teenagers who are under 18 “We receive an average (...)