11-03-2014 ■ The official launching ceremony of the Metropolitan Area Network of Bujumbura (MAN) took place at Club du Lac Tanganyika on Tuesday.-By Yves Didier Irakoze The main objective of the project is to set up basic infrastructures to interconnect government institutions. The project will deploy an optic fiber network and (...)

10-29-2014 ■ The EAC Military Field Training Exercise held in Mwaro from 12 October was officially closed this 24th October. The Exercise Commander indicates that they achieved all their objectives. Two classrooms that were built in the framework of the EAC military cooperation were handed over to the Mwaro 2 Secondary (...)

10-20-2014 ■ The Swahili International Tourism Expo 1stEdition was held in Tanzania, from 1 to 4 October. It was an opportunity to promote Burundi, attract investors and meet international counterparts.-By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse According to Thomas Nkeshimana, who represented the Burundi Tea Office (OTB), many Tanzanians appreciated the quality of Burundian (...)

08-25-2014 ■ ‘The Framework of Hope’. That is how Mary Robinson, the former UN Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, described the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the region. It was her job to oversee and encourage the implementation of this comprehensive agreement, (...)

06-13-2014 ■ Commissioner General Kieran Holmes is satisfied with the great step OBR has reached during his four-year mandate at the Head of the first tax administration in Burundi (OBR). However, there are still some challenges.-By Diane Uwimana and Irakoze Yves Didier The OBR mission is to assess, collect, and comprehensively (...)

05-23-2014 ■ The University of Burundi is setting up a new branch of Kirundi-Kiswahili Department to improve professional teaching.-By Diane Uwimana “About 120 students are already enrolled in the new Department for the academic- year 2013-2014,” notes Siméon Ndoricimpa, in Charge of Communication at the University of Burundi. He indicates that (...)

05-22-2014 ■ The National Institute of Public Health has recently been chosen in Public Health Training as a centre of excellence during the 15th EAC Summit of Heads of States on 30 November 2013 at Kampala.-By Diane Uwimana Three institutes (Burundi Agricultural scientific Institute ‘ISABU’ from the Ministry of Agriculture and (...)

05-19-2014 ■ People from Nyarumanga site-Buterere Commune salute the support of Wings of hope for Africa “WHA”, a Canadian Humanitarian Organization.-By Yves Didier Irakoze “I was really very harshly suffering from tuberculosis. Then, Wings of Hope for Africa supported me and assisted me till I recovered. Now I feel better,” points (...)

04-20-2014 ■ In Burundi and in the world, cases of people struck by lightning are frequent nowadays. Pr Pierre Nzohabonayo, Physicist and Lecturer at the University of Burundi indicates that it is due to climate change.-Lorraine Josiane Manishatse “The frequency of people or any other body struck by lightning is related (...)

04-11-2014 ■ Funded by the International Tennis Confederation, the East African Center is located in Bujumbura-Burundi. The objective of the center is to train young tennis players from East Africa aged from 10 to 18, so that they become professional tennis players.–By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse The East African Training Center was (...)