10-24-2019 ■ On both sides of the street leading to Mubone garbage dump located in Mubone neighborhood in Buterere area in the north of Bujumbura city, there is a swarm of flies above the garbage which emits nauseating smell and flowing rainwater mixed with garbage. The local population fear to contract (...)

10-22-2019 ■ A team of Iwacu news reporters namely Christine Kamikazi, Agnès Ndirubusa, Térence Mpozenzi, Egide Harerimana and their driver Adolphe Masabarakiza were arrested on Tuesday, October 22 around noon in Musigati commune of Bubanza province in the west of Burundi where heavy gunfire was heard this morning. They were arrested (...)

10-18-2019 ■ “The Government of Burundi has made a firm commitment to pay all arrears it owes to the East African Community. We still have to pay about 2% of the arrears in order to start paying the contributions for the current fiscal year,” said Isabelle Ndahayo, Burundi Minister of East (...)

10-17-2019 ■ Unidentified people have painted the office the opposition party CNL with used lubricating oil in Buhindo area in Mugwi Commune of Cibitoke Province in the north western Burundi. “In the morning of October 16, we found our office painted in black,” says CNL member adding that it was coated (...)

10-16-2019 ■ First final year students of the bachelor’s degree program, in the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Ntare Rugamba University made a sit-in on Tuesday, October 15 in front of the headquarters of the school establishment. They accuse the school management of refusing to give their academic documents. Fifty-three young (...)

10-12-2019 ■ This Sunday October 6th, the National Rally for Change (RANAC) party called on political parties to form a strong coalition to bring about change in 2020. Aloys Baricako, Chairman of RANAC party has called on all political parties aspiring to change to form a coalition in order to win (...)

10-11-2019 ■ Police officers have arrested in the night of October 9th, the parents of Yvette Iradukunda, a girl beaten on September 22nd by the administrator of Mugongomaga commune of Bujumbura province. The incident took place at Ijenda area. Sources of Rusaka commune in Mwaro province, the native commune of the (...)

10-10-2019 ■ «Burundian girls face a major challenge. They do not complete their studies and consequently they do not achieve effective development, “said Martin Nivyabandi, Minister of Human Rights, Gender and Social Affairs on the occasion of the World Girl Day celebrated on 9 October. In the same vein, Claudette Niyonzima, (...)

10-09-2019 ■ At least fourteen people from Rukaramu area in Mutimbuzi commune of Bujumbura province have contracted cholera since last week. Two people have already died of this disease which is spreading fast due to a serious lack of drinking water in the locality. Residents of Kigwati I and Kigwati II (...)

10-08-2019 ■ Members of the opposition coalition in exile CNARED who arrived in Bujumbura on Saturday October 5th have not returned from exile. They came to lead a precursor mission, to talk with the Burundian authorities, according to the same sources. Anicet Noyonkuru, chairman of CDP party and also executive secretary (...)