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07-20-2018 ■ Five local NGOs fighting for children, girls and women’s rights have sent a letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly asking him to suspend the 3rd paragraph of the measure by the ministry of education. The latter is about sanctions imposed on the victims of unwanted pregnancies while (...)

07-20-2018 ■ Local authorities in Kirundo province, in the north of Burundi report that about 3,000 Burundians have been expelled from Rwanda since June 2018, because they refused to live in the refugee camps. They complain that they are separated from their families, explaining that men married to Rwandan women are (...)

07-20-2018 ■ In the presentation of the achievements for the 2nd term of 2018, the ministry of public security has insisted on the respect of regulations governing the private security and surveillance companies. Melchiade Ruceke, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Public Security says those regulations which are not often respected (...)

07-20-2018 ■ The family and community development center – CDFC in Ngozi recorded 468 cases of SGBV during the last three months. The center representative says there is an upsurge of SGBV because the same center had recorded 320 cases during the first three months of this year. Charles Ndihokubwayo, the (...)

07-19-2018 ■ By Agnes Odhiambo and Elin Martinez In June, Burundi joined a small group of African countries that ban pregnant girls from continuing with formal education in government schools. Burundi’s Education Ministry banned the boys who get the girls pregnant as well as the girls themselves from going to public (...)

07-19-2018 ■ All cars carrying passengers in rural public transport must have a black plastic sticker which serves to distinguish taxis operating inside the country from those operating in Bujumbura city. Since 16 July, the police have seized taxis that do not have this sticker and fined their drivers with BIF (...)

07-19-2018 ■ Jean Prosper Niyoboke, an economic expert says there is a need to analyze the authenticity of the number of companies and jobs created as announced by Burundi investment agency-API. “We wonder if jobs and companies registered in API are potential or effective”, says that economic expert while reacting to (...)

07-19-2018 ■ While the world celebrates Mandela Day each July 18, Burundian politicians say they will always remember Nelson Mandela as a hero because of his contribution to end the civil war through the Arusha Peace Agreement. Some of them denounce, however, the will of the government to violate it. Pancrace (...)

07-18-2018 ■ The International Committee of the Red Cross-ICRC says prisoners in Burundi suffer social discrimination. In honor of Mandela Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross-ICRC in partnership with the Ministry of Justice has visited Light University students to sensitize them to the rights and dignity of detainees. Nazim (...)

07-18-2018 ■ More than 1,000 indigenous people from the Batwa community of Muhanga Commune of Kayanza Province in the north of Burundi have been issued with National Identity Cards and birth certificates thanks to the funding of US Embassy in Burundi. Hope Association for Young Batwa (Assojeba) in partnership with the (...)