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01-05-2018 ■ The Burundian Ombudsman, Edouard Nduwimana, organizes, on 5 January, a session to explain to the inhabitants of Bujumbura the amendments made to the current Constitution which will be submitted to the referendum in May 2018. He calls on them to vote ‘Yes’. We have come to explain to you (...)

01-05-2018 ■ More than 5000 families from Kizina 1 and 2 sectors of Gihanga commune in Bubanza province claim to be victims of injustice. They say they have been expropriated from their lands which were later attributed to an unknown person called “Joseph Gahushi”. The residents of the locality say they (...)

01-05-2018 ■ The 1st and 2nd Vice-Presidents of the Republic of Burundi jointly signed on December 28 a decree fixing the scale and the modalities of granting orders and official mission expenses. According to the decree, any official visit conducted outside the Burundian territory must be authorized by the Government of (...)

01-05-2018 ■ Janvière Ndirahisha, Minister of Education has recently alerted students and parents who applied for virtual learning that they must have relevant information before applying. “All parents having children who wish to pursue their studies through e-learning in foreign universities, institutes and foundations whether in Europe, America, Asia, Oceania or (...)

01-05-2018 ■ Since 3 January 2018, Nicholas Musonye, Secretary General of the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA), is in Burundi to launch activities to prepare 2018 CECAFA U-17. Mossi Yussuf, President of the competitions’ commission at Burundi Football Federation (FFB), says CECAFA Secretary General is in Burundi (...)

01-04-2018 ■ The joint commission in charge of distributing stands to traders in the newly rehabilitated markets has released lists of traders who will operate in the markets of Kinama and Ruziba in the capital Bujumbura. Traders have a month to set up their stalls in metallic materials. “Traders who were (...)

01-04-2018 ■ Since 2015, house workers were asked to buy a professional card. Three years after the sensitization, they still complain about the obligation to have it. Each card is sold at BIF 7300 and extra money can be paid if the house worker does not have two passport pictures as (...)

01-04-2018 ■ President Pierre Nkurunziza has recently appointed members of various national commissions including the National Observatory for the Prevention and Eradication of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Jean de Dieu Mutabazi, President of Burundi’s Democratic Rally (RADEBU) was appointed to chair this national observatory. Joseph Sinabwiteye and Emérence (...)

01-03-2018 ■ President Pierre Nkurunziza has recently appointed members of various national commissions including the National Observatory for the Prevention and Eradication of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Jean de Dieu Mutabazi, President of Burundi’s Democratic Rally (RADEBU) was appointed to chair this national observatory. Joseph Sinabwiteye and Emérence (...)

01-03-2018 ■ All public and private schools have started the second term of 2017-2018 school year this 2 January. At Lycée Gisenyi, a boarding school located in the capital Bujumbura, pupils were coming in twos and threes. Nunu Jacqueline, headmistress of the school, says students are few due to the last (...)