10-04-2019 ■ “590 Burundian refugees have been voluntarily repatriated from Tanzania this October 3,” says Nestor Bimenyimana, Director General in charge of repatriation at the Ministry of the Interior. The process of voluntary repatriation of Burundian refugees sheltered in Tanzania has been ongoing since 2017, he adds. These returnees are accommodated (...)

10-03-2019 ■ A dead body was discovered in the morning of October 2nd in Ngagara area, in Ntahangwa commune in the north of Bujumbura city. The victim is called Déo Irakoze, a thirty-year young man from Ijenda area, Mugongomanga commune of Bujumbura province. His body was lying in the gutter of (...)

10-02-2019 ■ On the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Older Persons, those from Burundi say they don’t have access to health care due to the lack of means. They ask the government to implement free health care policy for older persons. “I live with my little grandchild. (...)

10-01-2019 ■ “There is still a long way to go to improve our performance. We face problems of means of transport to conduct activities on the field, “said Sixte Vigny Nimuraba, chairman of the Independent National Commission for Human Rights (CNIDH) at the end of a four-day training workshop for commissioners (...)

09-27-2019 ■ “Political opponents, women and ordinary citizens do not occupy enough space in Burundian media,” reveals the survey results on the monitoring of Burundian media presented on Thursday, September 26, 2019 by Institut Panos Grands Lacs (IPGL). This survey was conducted on four media namely National Radio, Iwacu Newspaper, Radio (...)

09-26-2019 ■ Mugara II Basic School of Rumonge province in the south of Burundi faces severe lack of school equipment. Classrooms of the1st and 2nd grades do not have writing desks. Schoolchildren sit on the stones or on the ground covered with dust when studying while in other classrooms, four pupils (...)

09-25-2019 ■   Despite the spread of cholera disease in Bujumbura city, illegal dumps are observed in some neighborhoods of Bujumbura city, particularly in Buyenzi. Residents fear to contract cholera. A huge pile of various kinds of waste overlooks the 8th Avenue of Buyenzi area of ​​Mukaza commune in central Bujumbura. (...)

09-24-2019 ■ “In many countries, if elections are approaching, human rights violations are committed. We must be sufficiently equipped to deal with the human rights violations that may be committed in the upcoming 2020 elections, “said Dr. Sixte Vigny Nimuraba, chairman of the Independent National Commission for Human Rights. It was (...)

09-20-2019 ■ The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) published on 19 September a provisional list of members of the Provincial Electoral Commission (CEPI) in Gitega province of central Burundi. Some leaders of political parties complain that they are not represented. They accuse the national electoral commission of being partial. CEPI in (...)

09-19-2019 ■ The Association of International Transport Operators in Burundi (ATIB) encourages Burundi economic operators to use the central corridor connecting Dar-es-Salaam and Kigoma by rail and Kigoma to Bujumbura by waterway through Lake Tanganyika. Eric Ntangaro, ATIB executive secretary says this lake route is faster, cheaper and less risky compared (...)