03-06-2020 ■ Thaddée Ndikumana, Minister of Public Health has said all passengers from China, France, Spain, Japan, Iran, South Korea, German and Italy will be kept in quarantine at ‘Source du Nil’ hotel in Bujumbura city for 14 days, from 6 March. “The decision has been taken to prevent any case (...)

03-06-2020 ■ Léonce Ngendakumana for Sahwanya Frodebu party, Domitien Ndayizeye for Kira Burundi Coalition , Valentin Kavakure for FPN-Imboneza party and Anicet Niyonkuru for CDP party have submitted, this 5 March, the required documents to the National Independent Electoral Commission[CENI] to run for the presidential election set on May 20. Léonce (...)

03-06-2020 ■ “During this 2020 B growing season, fertilizers needed are estimated at 21, 613, 325 tons. 17, 549,390 tons, i.e. 81.2%, have already been distributed to farmers,” said Déo Guide Rurema Minister of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock at a press conference held on 5 March. He added that 92% (...)

03-05-2020 ■ “We will amend laws governing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) and the National Commission on Lands and other Properties once we win the elections,” announced Gaston Sindimwo, the First Vice-President of Burundi and UPRONA representative in the presidential elections of May 2020. It was at a press conference (...)

03-04-2020 ■ The Council of Ministers approved the bill on the 2020/2021 public finance at a meeting held from 26 to 27 February. For the 2020/2021 financial year, the total resources of the General State Budget are estimated at BIF 1,415.51 billion while they were estimated at BIF 1,327.08 billion for (...)

03-04-2020 ■ Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-CVR has said there is no need to look for foreign experts in the exhumation of the dead’s remains from mass graves. “CVR members are themselves experts. They are community research officers and some of them are historians,” said Ndayicariye. (...)

03-03-2020 ■ “Kira Burundi has chosen his Excellency Domitien Ndayizeye as its candidate for the next 2020 presidential elections,” announced Aloys Baricako, representative of the political Coalition Kira Burundi at a press conference held on 2 March, 2020. He fulfills all the criteria fixed by the coalition to pick a candidate (...)

03-03-2020 ■ Following fake reports of the first case of novel coronavirus-COVID19 in Burundi this March 1, Jean Bosco Girukwishaka Spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Health calls on people to remain calm and respect the measures already taken by the Ministry to reduce the risks of contagion of this virus. (...)

03-02-2020 ■ 22 out of 30 combatants were killed and 8 others captured. The police have not yet revealed the identity of this armed group which was reported in Bujumbura province since Wednesday, February 19, 2020. There are many questions over this attack and speculation is rife. In the aftermath of (...)

02-29-2020 ■ “At least 461 people died, over 700 injured, nearly 11,000 houses destroyed, more than 65,000 ha of fields damaged and more than 14,000 people displaced in 2019 as the result of the heavy rains that fell in Burundi,” said André Ndayambaje, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Public Security, (...)