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09-25-2015 ■ It was like a thunderbolt when the news spread in the morning on Friday, 11 September. A team of men fully armed and dressed in military fatigues had ambushed the vehicle of General-Major Prime Niyongabo and his escort on the Rumonge National Road RN3. By Abbas Mbazumutima and Dieudonné (...)

09-23-2015 ■ The chinese supermarket T2000 has undergone a fire in this morning. Despite the effort of the Firefighters, Civil Protection and the Red Cross, the supermarket had gone to ashes. (...)

09-14-2015 ■ In Burundi, the rate of Assassinations and Tortures increases day by day, La ligue Iteka strongly condemns those crimes. The president of that organization points out that the alleged persons are from the National Intelligence Services. (...)

09-14-2015 ■ Bujumbura town slept, this week, under a barrage of gunshots and grenade explosions in some neighbourhoods. By Abbas Mbazumutima, Monia-Bella Inakanyambo, Dieudonné Hakizimana and Floribert Nisabwe translated by Diane Uwimana It concerns search and seizure operations to find weapons, according to the police. The population, sometimes locked in her (...)

09-11-2015 ■ To relaunch the economic activities in Burundi, Kenyan Embassy in partnership with some burundian institutions has organized an Expo at Tampete ground in Bujumbura. (...)

09-11-2015 ■ Dead persons were discovered in Cibitoke Commune in this morning 8th September. The two who were found at 6th Avenue were recognized and taken. Under the heat of the sun, covered with sheets, the unknown dead body attracts the gaze of people. (...)

07-23-2015 ■ Minor children surrendered themselves after the fights in Cibitoke and Kayanza provinces. Human Rights defenders ask for their immediate release.-By Jackson Bahati translated by J.Berchmans Siboniyo They all are boys. Their age varies between 15 and 17. The forty one children look very desperate. They are imprisoned in one (...)

07-22-2015 ■ At least one hundred ‘assailants’ were arrested, while others rendered themselves in Cibitoke and provinces between July 10 and 13 July. During a press briefing held by the army on July 13th in Bukinanyana, a slew of hungry and docile youths were exhibited.-By Armel Uwikunze translated by J.Berchmans Siboniyo (...)

07-07-2015 ■ At least seven people died at the 8th Avenue during the Independence Day celebrations on July1st . The police report “clashes between police officers and attackers”. Compound No. 42 in Mutakura illustrates the violence of the operation.-By Abbas Mbazumutima translated by J.Berchmans Siboniyo Many bullet holes in the walls. (...)

06-22-2015 ■ Men and women all mixed demonstrated in Mukike commune. They denounced the abusive repression of the police who killed a demonstrator at 29th last May. (...)