02-28-2020 ■ Agathon Rwasa, Chairman of CNL party has submitted all required documents for the presidential election set on 20 May to the National Independent Electoral Commission, this February 27. He has said the electoral commission should conduct a good electoral process to satisfy everybody. “We have just submitted the required (...)

02-27-2020 ■ People not yet identified have carried out armed attacks since 19 February in Mutambu, Nyabiraba, Isare and Kanyosha communes of Bujumbura province. Two police officers and more than 20 combatants died in these attacks, said Pierre Nkurikiye, spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Security at a press conference held (...)

02-26-2020 ■ Evariste Ndayishimiye, Secretary General of the ruling party CNDD-FDD and presidential candidate for the forthcoming elections has submitted this 25 February his file to the office of the National electoral commission (CENI). He has also submitted the files of CNDD-FDD candidates for the legislative elections. The electoral commission announced (...)

02-25-2020 ■ “Political parties, coalitions of political parties and independent candidates who meet conditions set by law and wish to stand for the upcoming 2020 elections must submit their candidacy files to the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) headquarters from 25 February to 5 March, 2020,” announced Pierre Claver Kazihise, CENI (...)

02-25-2020 ■ Members of Kira Burundi, the new coalition which was created a few days ago, have not been able to hold a press conference this 23 February as planned. Georges Nikiza, spokesperson for this coalition has said it has been postponed due to causes beyond their control. According to sources (...)

02-24-2020 ■ This Wednesday, February 19, in Bujumbura, the National Assembly adopted the bill establishing the status of ‘Supreme Leader’ despite s opposition critics. Tension was higher in the National Assembly. It was over the examination of the amendments to the new bill establishing the status of the ‘Supreme Guide of (...)

02-21-2020 ■ Consolate Havyarimana, 45, was shot dead in front of her house in Kizingwe locality, Kanyosha area in Muha commune in the south of Bujumbura. This mother of a child also mother of the ruling party CNDD-FDD was attacked by unidentified gunmen when she was going home from work in (...)

02-21-2020 ■ Four political parties namely CDP, RANAC, PAJUDE and FEDS have coalesced into “Kira Burundi” for the 2020 elections. Aloys Baricako, chairman of the coalition says they want to join forces to win the forthcoming elections. “Unity is strength and we share the same society project,” he has said, after (...)

02-20-2020 ■ Members of the National Assembly have analyzed and approved a draft bill governing the ranking of President Pierre Nkurunziza as a ‘Supreme Guide of Patriotism’ despite controversial discussions, this 19 February. Aimée Laurentine Kanyana, Minister of Justice who defended the draft bill in the National Assembly has said the latter has (...)

02-17-2020 ■ The imprisonment of Junior Nganjiyimana and his mother Aline Ndikumana has provoked uproar since the past few days. Their friends and relatives say the two were imprisoned in place of Théogene Ndikumana, the head of the family, after a search in which weapons were found. The family denounces a (...)