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 (...)

01-27-2020 ■ The Inyankamugayo (members of the opposition CNL party) from different communes of Kirundo province have been going through an ordeal. They face verbal threats, they are beaten, their crops are destroyed, etc. Iwacu reporters conducted an investigation in Kirundo, Bugabira and Bwambarangwe communes. Surprised by a crowd of young (...)

01-15-2020 ■ “At least 140,000 Burundians were killed and others went missing in crises that Burundi experienced from 1885 to 2008,” said Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) when presenting the annual report before parliamentarians on Tuesday 14 January. According to CVR, over 4,000 mass graves (...)

12-08-2019 ■ Since his abduction by unknown people on Wednesday, November 20, the whereabouts of Berchmans Misago also known as “Cuma”, a resident of Ntahangwa commune in Bujumbura city, are still unknown. This FNL party veteran very close to Agathon Rwasa, the president of CNL party, was very influential in this (...)

12-03-2019 ■ Agathon Rwasa, CNL party chairman has said four CNL party members have been killed in a month in Ngozi province. “They have been killed by youths affiliated to the ruling party”, he said adding that the situation is calm as if anything hasn’t happened. He said it during the (...)

11-18-2019 ■ Clashes erupted on Sunday, November 10 in Nyamurenza commune of Ngozi province, between activists of CNL and CNDD-FDD parties, on the occasion of the inauguration of the communal office by CNL party. Both parties accuse each other. The confrontations would have been followed by a “selective hunt” against CNL (...)

11-08-2019 ■ The secretary general of National Congress for Liberty (CNL), an opposition party, says there would be a plan to eliminate leaders of the CNL. He accuses some officials of the ruling CNDD-FDD party and some administrative officials of being behind that plan. “CNL party has obtained information about a (...)

11-05-2019 ■ The new political party-Front for Ideological and Democratic Change (FCID) Imvugakuri applied for approval this Monday, November 4 at the Ministry of the Interior. Dénis Nduwayo, the legal representative of this party made up of young people and leaders “concerned with development change” says their goal is to find (...)

11-04-2019 ■ There is a wave of arrests in this locality after the assassination attempt of the Muyira zone chief in Kanyosha commune of Bujumbura province, on the night of Friday 25 October. The National Congress for Liberty (CNL) denounces a manhunt towards its activists. In the small village of Rweza, (...)

10-23-2019 ■ Leaders of political parties and governors of provinces have met, in their fifth meeting this October 22nd , to assess the current political and security situation in the country seven months before the 2020 elections. Pascal Barandagiye, Minister of Home Affairs has said they meet to assess the achievements (...)