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03-27-2019 ■ “The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Ngozi Court of Appeal has decided to release three pupils. Investigations will continue while they are in their families,” Aimee Laurentine Kanyana, Burundi Minister of Justice told journalists on 25 March adding that these pupils have committed crimes. Those three pupils from Kamuri Basic (...)

03-26-2019 ■ By Antoine Kaburahe The opposition platform in exile-CNARED lashes out at the political journalist Agnès Ndirubusa and Iwacu newspaper after the publication of the article «CNARED or a homecoming notebook The article did not please CNARED, given the tweets published by the platform. It does not matter. Before going (...)

03-26-2019 ■ Amember of the National Congress for Liberty party-CNL has been killed with machete while two others were injured in grenade attack respectively in Busoni and Kirundo communes of Kirundo Province, in the north of the country. In the night of March 2019, Aimable Ndayizeye, a member of the youth (...)

03-26-2019 ■ Some owners of food processing companies accuse the Bureau of Standards and Quality Control (BBN) of hurting their business by refusing to certify their processed products so that they should be put on the market. BBN communication officer says that juice locally manufactured from ginger is not certified. “BBN (...)

03-25-2019 ■ The relationship between CNARED and the Government makes me think of those words of Didier Barbelivien singing: “Come back, we will live hand in hand, the adventure with you is so good …, ” because the question of CNARED’s return to the country is no longer taboo. It all (...)

03-22-2019 ■ “All the players are already in Bujumbura. The team is ready to win this important match for all Burundians,” Olivier Niyungeko, the coach of Burundian national team ‘Intamba Murugamba’ told journalists. Burundians are eager to watch the football match between Burundi and Gabon that is to take place on (...)

03-22-2019 ■ Experts call for measure to protect Lake Tanganyika which is the main source of clean water in Burundi. On the occasion of the celebration of the world Water Day this 22 March, Gaspard Ntakimazi, university lecturer and environmentalist, says the pipes used for the abstraction of drinking water from (...)

03-22-2019 ■ Emmanuel Nshimirimana, Marius Nizigama and Aimé Constant Gatore, three focal points of PARCEM, a local NGO involved in the change of mindset in Muramvya province, were freed this 21 March. They were acquitted by the Bujumbura Court of Appeal in December 2018. Faustin Ndikumana, PARCEM chairman regrets the slowness (...)

03-22-2019 ■ The Truth and Reconciliation Commission-CVR, this March 20, dug up the remains of a man reportedly killed in 1993 in Mahonda area in Ndava commune of Mwaro province. Aloys Batungwanayo, CVR commissioner, says the remains of a man identified as Déo Nizigama was discovered during farming activities two months (...)

03-22-2019 ■ Gervais Hatangimana was grievously wounded in a grenade attack carried out at his home in Buganda Commune of Cibitoke Province in the north-western part of Burundi. The incident took place in the night of March 20. Local authorities say the grenade was launched by a policeman called Celestin Nitunga (...)