19-08-2016 ■ The two bodies recovered last week from the Mubarazi River were buried this Tuesday, August 16, 2016 in Muramvya cemetery. According to the wife of our colleague Jean Bigirimana, (...)

17-08-2016 ■ The two bodies fished out from the Mubarazi when searching for Jean Bigirimana, the Iwacu journalist who has disappeared since 22 July were buried in the afternoon of Tuesday,16 (...)

16-08-2016 ■ On 12 August, three professional associations of Burundian Media have written a letter to President Pierre Nkurunziza to ask him to free the journalist Jean Bigirimana working for Iwacu (...)

15-08-2016 ■ Thursday August 11, civil protection rescuers extracted two dead bodies found near Bihongo waterfall in Nyabisiga rural area. The area is situated in Bugarama zone where Jean Bigirimana disappeared. (...)

11-08-2016 ■ Macabre surprise: On 9 August, in the evening, during a field visit by the members of the National Commission for the Human Rights- CNIDH, the Judicial Police, police unit (...)

11-08-2016 ■ A team of civil protection officers alongside Iwacu journalists on the banks of the Mubarazi river. There, the reporters of the newspaper, in search of their missing colleague, Jean (...)

08-08-2016 ■ After three days of investigations on the ground, Iwacu journalists found a body in the area where, according to several sources, the journalist disappeared. Iwacu decided to publish the (...)

05-08-2016 ■ Investigations by CNIDH could not help find journalist Jean Bigirimana. But there is some hope he is still alive. Is journalist Jean Bigirimana still alive? Where is he? Journalists (...)

04-08-2016 ■ As promised to Iwacu, the chairman of CNIDH (National Independent Commission on Human Rights) went to Muramvya Wednesday afternoon to investigate the whereabouts of journalist Jean Bigirimana. The Commission (...)

03-08-2016 ■ Pieces of information persist pointing to the fact that journalist Jean Bigirimana may be detained in one of the National Intelligence Service’s cells in Muramvya province. This contradicts the (...)

02-08-2016 ■ 11 days on, Jean Bigirimana, the Iwacu journalist has gone missing. 11 days of anxiety and questions but especially in the deafening silence of the national police. The last (...)

01-08-2016 ■ A week on with no news of our colleague Jean Bigirimana. Relatives, friends and former colleagues speak of a good family, active and hardworking man. ” He consults me (...)

26-07-2016 ■ On the 5th day of the unexplained disappearance of the journalist, from Brussels, the Iwacu Press Group Manager, Antoine Kaburahe, makes an appeal to Burundian authorities. Since the afternoon (...)

25-07-2016 ■ According to reliable sources, this former journalist of Rema FM radio recently recruited by the Iwacu Press Group was arrested in the afternoon this Friday, 22 July by the (...)