06-04-2020 ■ On the occasion of the official launch on 3 June of the new journalists union formed by a group of journalists, their colleagues expressed their concerns. After the suspension of the Burundian Union of Journalists (UBJ) in 2015, some Burundian journalists officially launched on 3 June a new union (...)

06-03-2020 ■ The Burundian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) has begun since 2 June a three- day-activity of exhuming human remains in mass graves located in Burenge locality in Marangara commune of Ngozi northern province. These mass graves contain people killed in the massacres committed in 1988. Clément Noé Ninziza, Deputy (...)

06-03-2020 ■ Gabriel Rufyiri, OLUCOME Chairman says his organization is concerned over the lack of respect for the preventive measures against the COVID-19 pandemic in Burundi. Rufyiri wonders whether or not the pandemic is no longer a concern for Burundi. “Some Burundians don’t respect the preventive measures when the pandemic doesn’t (...)

06-02-2020 ■ Students from the ninth grade in Basic School of Gatumba area, recently flooded by Rusizi River, in Bujumbura province are preparing to sit for the national exam scheduled from 9 to 11 June. Solange Nelly Niyonkuru, a student at “Mushasha I” Basic School in Gatumba locality says she lost (...)

06-02-2020 ■ Joseph Nyabenda, a member of the opposition party National Congress for Liberty (CNL), was wounded with a spear in the chest by members of the youth league of the ruling party CNDD-FDD. The incident took place on 31 May evening in Sanzwe locality in Munagano area, in Muyinga commune (...)

06-01-2020 ■ On Thursday, May 28, the National Congress for Liberty (CNL) submitted its file to the Constitutional Court. Agathon Rwasa, its president, second in the presidential race, claims to have irrefutable evidence that there has been fraud in the recent elections. At 2.30 p.m. Agathon Rwasa arrives at the Constitutional (...)

05-29-2020 ■ Térence Manirambona, Spokesperson for CNL party says the withdrawal of the provisional results on the electoral body website shows that there was electoral fraud often reported by his party. “We wonder where those figures came from. Is it authorized by the electoral code and who is responsible?” wonders Manirambona. (...)

05-29-2020 ■ “Following the irregularities that occurred on the polling day, It would be better if the Independent National Electoral Commission recognized it during the presentation of the provisional results,” said Dieudonné Nahimana, who participated in the presidential election of 20 May, 2020 as an independent candidate at a news conference (...)

05-29-2020 ■ Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI says the commission was surprised to hear that there is an organization which reported dissimilar conclusions in the recent elections. “39 groups of observers were allowed to monitor the electoral process and their reports were similar expect for one (...)

05-29-2020 ■ On the occasion of the Menstrual Hygiene Day, women and girls living in the Kigaramango IDP site say they go through an ordeal during the menstrual period. They cannot afford sanitary napkins. They use pieces of torn clothes that often cause the infections of the female reproductive system. “Since (...)