10-31-2018 ■ 54 prisoners expelled from Congo have been interrogated by the public prosecutor in Bujumbura this Tuesday October 30. They are mainly accused of disturbing the internal security of the state. Those who were questioned are part of a team of 124 alleged rebels expelled from Congo last year. They (...)

10-26-2018 ■ The government has tried to take back street children into their families. What became of them after their return? Iwacu met these children who have failed to live in their families. Removing children from the street and sending them back home, a praiseworthy state project. G.N., aged 14, went (...)

10-26-2018 ■ The office of the facilitation in the Inter-Burundian dialogue has opened the 5th round of Burundi talks on 25 October without the presence of Bujumbura delegation. Burundi government says it will not be concerned with what will result from the dialogue sessions. William Benjamin Mkapa, facilitator in the Inter-Burundian (...)

10-24-2018 ■ Previously scheduled in the afternoon of 24 October at Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge in Arusha, Tanzania, the 5th round of the Inter-Burundian dialogue has been postponed to 25 October. The office of the facilitation in Burundi talks didn’t give any explanation. According to some sources in Arusha, the facilitator would (...)

10-24-2018 ■ Parents of students at Karurama I Basic School in Rugombo Commune of Cibitoke north-western province of Burundi denounce the large number of students in one class. At 9 a.m., pupils of grade 1 at Karurama Fundamental School are studying. The teacher struggles to teach the lesson prepared for the (...)

10-23-2018 ■ The medical personnel on the Burundi-DRC border denounce the lack of equipment to detect and fight against Ebola. At a beautiful sunset, a boat arrives from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Mparambo border, in north-west of Burundi, via the Rusizi River. A dozen of passengers get off with (...)

10-20-2018 ■ Members of the government that was led by Melchior Ndadaye plead for a special honor for this democracy hero. They have said that in a public conference held this October 19, 2018 in remembrance of 25 years after his assassination. Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, former member of the cabinet at that (...)

10-19-2018 ■ During the presentation of 1st term of fiscal year achievement, the minister in charge of the East African Community affairs says there is a kind of exclusion of Burundians in different jobs within the community. Isabelle Ndahayo, Minister in charge of the EAC affairs says they have seen that (...)

10-16-2018 ■ While the world celebrates the Rural Women Day every 15 October, Burundian rural women demand to be supported. It’s around 10:00a.m. on Vugizo mountain in Mukaza Commune in the capital Bujumbura. Rural women are busy growing crops. Odette Nzeyimana, 28, must work hard to feed her 5children. “I work (...)

10-11-2018 ■ “The lack of drugs to fight against mental disorders in Burundi pharmacies, their high cost and the poverty of the patients’ families are the major problems mental patients face in Burundi,” said Dr. Franck Minos Sokoroza, the head of the medical department at Kamenge Neuropsychiatric Center (CNPK) situated in (...)