06-05-2018 ■ On the eve of the national exam for ninth graders, Firmin Vyumvuhore, chairman of the national commission in charge of the national test in Fundamental School, has said all the test kits have already reached their destination throughout the country. “We are ready. Test papers are now in all (...)

06-04-2018 ■ The final results of the constitutional referendum of May 17 were announced this Thursday, May 31. Unsurprisingly, the Constitutional Court validated the provisional results as given by the electoral commission. The verdict was differently appreciated. The Constitutional Court decided that the referendum was conducted in accordance with the law. (...)

05-29-2018 ■ The National Commission for Lands and other Properties (CNTB) has handed over a three-ha-property located in Kinyinya III, Rukaramu zone of Mutimbuzi Commune in Bujumbura province, to the descendants of Gahinga Issa represented by Bambarukontari Alexis this May 28, 2018. Samuel Nduwingoma, former owner, was absent. Dieudonné Mbonimpa, Spokesman (...)

05-22-2018 ■ Ambiguity reigns around the 20th summit of COMESA organization. While we can read on the official website of COMESA that the 20th summit is to be held in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2018 , the spokesperson for the government says Burundi has not yet got any official document attesting (...)

05-17-2018 ■ Around 6:00a.m., all polling stations were open in the capital Bujumbura. At Mutanga-Sud Fundamental School, many voters have lined up before eight polling stations. Security forces were around. However, voters complained about the slow going of the process. “I have spent two hours queuing. I don’t know why the (...)

05-17-2018 ■ On the eve of the 17 May referendum, the preparations are going well. In the afternoon of 16 May, all voting centers were supplied with heavy and sensible materials needed. In Kanyosha zone of Muha Commune in the capital Bujumbura, electoral agents are busy supplying 243 voting centers located (...)

05-16-2018 ■ The staff members of the US Embassy in Burundi have collected assistance to the victims of floods in Buterere, Carama and Gatumba neighborhoods in the capital Bujumbura. “We have collected clothes, soaps and other non-food assistance to support women, children and men who were left helpless by the recent (...)

05-10-2018 ■ The activity of distributing voting cards to the population began this Thursday, May 9 all over the country. At various registration centers in Bujumbura city where Iwacu passed, people were in the queues and some could be heard expressing their discontent. At Lycée Municipal Musaga, in Muha commune, activities (...)

05-09-2018 ■ Since the past two weeks, there has been a new organization of public transport in the city of Bujumbura. Some bus stops have been removed others created. Some passengers complain. Séraphine Nitunga, a woman in her forties met on ‘28 Novembre’ road, near Roi Khaled Hospital in the morning, (...)

05-08-2018 ■ Sources report that police officers alongside agents of the National Intelligence Service arrested five people including the former administrator of Buyenzi Commune Barthazar Nzeyimana. They were all at his home located on the 21th Avenue in Buyenzi district in the center of the capital Bujumbura in the night of (...)