The number of trucks carrying goods from the partner states goes on decreasing at Zege Road Parking. Clearing agents receive a small number of customers and other traders have already closed their shops. At Zege Road Parking, trucks waiting to be unloaded ©Iwacu At Zege Road Parking, at least 15 trucks were waiting for being unloaded this Monday 15th April. Rogatien Nizigiyimana, the Lire Plus...

Since the 1998-1999 academic year, the ISCO Customs Section (Business Higher Institute) at the University of Burundi is not there anymore. Former students of the Institute say that the situation causes bad impacts on Burundi and EAC. Since the 1998-1999 academic year, the ISCO Customs Section (Business Higher Institute) at the University of Burundi is not there anymore ©Iwacu Pierre Lire Plus...

Burundian traders can no longer export fruit to East African Community countries. They are stopped by PAFE agents « Police de l’Air des Frontières et des Etrangers » (Burundi Migration Police). A Mandarins field at Rumonge ©Iwacu At Rumonge, along the tarmac road leading to Burundi south provinces, oranges and mandarins make the place more attractive. Some are ripe, while others are about to Lire Plus...

Ugandan, Tanzanian and Kenyan products become more and more abundant in Ngozi market. Retailers from the four corners of Burundi are found there. The internal partial view of Ngozi market ©Iwacu Outside the large market of Ngozi city (Northern Province), department stores have been settled everywhere around the market. Inside the stalls, a lot of items, mainly from the East African Lire Plus...

In some institutions of Burundi, some people don’t know how to welcome their customers or information seekers. Some customers also complain about this attitude and this often leads to a kind of discouragement. A lot of services lose their customers. It will probably become difficult for local businessmen to compete with those from EAC. Pasteur Mugisha : « Burundian businessmen must have in Lire Plus...

MADRID – Economic globalization, together with a rebalancing of power between the world’s north and south, has made developing countries, and many companies within them, key global economic actors. This provides a new rationale for strengthening the international framework to protect foreign investment. By Ana Palacio [*] Once upon a time, global foreign direct investment flowed from only a Lire Plus...

Traders and people of Makamba complain that products from Tanzania have become more and more expensive for two reasons : first, because Burundi Authority Revenue (OBR) asks for a lot of taxes at the border, secondly, because Burundian currency (BIF) is depreciating compared to Tanzanian Shilling. One of the shops at Mabanda Commune ©Iwacu According to Céléstin Niyukuri, a trader from Mabanda Lire Plus...

At Kumugina border, in Mabanda Commune, Makamba Province, some traders used to import and export some products illegally from Tanzania to Burundi and vice versa. But with the coming of Burundi Authority Revenue (OBR), fraud has decreased considerably. Consequently, some traders among them have given up business. OBR offices at Kumugina border ©Iwacu “Before OBR starts, I was a business man. Lire Plus...

Agriculture is the source of the livelihood for the majority (about 90%) of Burundian People. To respond to the EAC Food Security Plan Action, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock is trying to improve the situation. Mrs. Odette Kayitesi, the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock ©Iwacu According to the 2008 population census, the number of population in Burundi is 8,038,618 people for Lire Plus...

Burundian women entrepreneurs appreciate Rwandan women traders’ dynamism and innovation. AFAB (Association des Femmes Entrepreneurs du Burundi) is committed to joining forces, knowledge, experiences and ideas to support each other. One of the Rwandan Women’s stands during Trade Fair ©Iwacu Rwanda Business week took place from 22nd to 25th March, 2013 at “Musée Vivant” of Bujumbura in Burundi. Lire Plus...