12-14-2019 ■ Anicet Niyonkuru, chairman of Patriots Council –CDP Inserukarukamvye party returned to Burundi from exile in the evening of 11 December. When he arrived at Melchior Ndadaye International Airport, Niyonkuru said “he came to prepare for the upcoming elections scheduled for May 2020.” At a press conference (...)   0

12-12-2019 ■ “More than 36,000 out of 100,000 expected people have been registered since the beginning of the ongoing partial voters’ registration process throughout the country,” said Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) at a press conference held this 11 December. The process (...)   0

12-11-2019 ■ The International Committee of the Red Cross has handed two projects of vegetable gardens and one fish project over to the General Directorate of Prison Affairs on this 10 December. The projects of vegetable gardens were carried out in Mpimba and Bubanza prisons while the fish (...)   0

12-10-2019 ■ A delayed opening of voters registration offices and a low participation of voters are the irregularities observed this Monday 9 December, the first day of partial registration of voters for the upcoming 2020 elections. At 10am, a person was registering in the office located at Fine (...)   0

12-06-2019 ■ At least 24 people were killed seven others wounded in the night of December 4th 2019 due to landslides following heavy rains that poured down in Cibitoke province in the west of Burundi. Gikomero, Nyempundu, Rwamagasha and Rukombe hills, all located in Mugina commune of the (...)   0

12-06-2019 ■ The US Ambassador to Burundi visited the University of Burundi on 5 December. The aim of the visit was to strengthen partnership with this university. “The US Embassy has signed a collaboration agreement with the University of Burundi which is limited to English learning,” said Eunic (...)   0