02-15-2019 ■ Nestor Bankumukunzi, chairman of the National Media Regulator-CNC says correspondences will be submitted to media houses whose managers have been living abroad for a long time. “It’s against the law and it is a flaw that must be corrected,” he says. The chairman of CNC says this after a (...)

02-14-2019 ■ The Ministry of Home Affairs has just approved the National Congress for Liberty, a new political party chaired by Agathon Rwasa, First Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. Agathon Rwasa, current leader of the opposition coalition “Amizero y’Abarundi” says he appreciates the decision taken by the Ministry of Home (...)

02-14-2019 ■ Members of Parliament adopted two bills related to the functioning, mission, and organization of the National Commission on Land and other Properties-CNTB and its Special Court. They also raised some concerns. MPs have raised concerns in relation to some cases settled by the Special Court when complainants made appeals. (...)

02-12-2019 ■ The commission in charge of social affairs and gender at the National Assembly has presented a report it conducted on the application of the law on the prevention and protection of victims of violence based on gender in six provinces. MP Adolphe Banyikwa, chairman of the commission says the (...)

02-09-2019 ■ «Dukorere Hamwe Dusoze Ikivi Cooperative» from West region, Ena from East region, Charles Niyonkuru from Gitega Province, joiners’ workshop from Ngozi Diocese and the Mediser from South region were motorcycle for paying taxes on time. Those laureates are from four areas of the country. Audace Niyonzima, Commissioner General of (...)

02-08-2019 ■ More than 350 Burundian refugees out of 1000 refugees who were expected to return to Burundi from Nduta and Mtenderi refugee camps in Tanzania were voluntarily repatriated this 7 February. They are from 107 families and include 175 men and 160 women. They arrived at Gisuru border in Ruyigi (...)

02-07-2019 ■ After a bicycle taxi driver was shot dead in the capital Bujumbura on 5 February, the ministry of Public Security refers to the incident as a self-defense. The association of bicycle taxi drivers refutes the argument. Pierre Nkurikiye, Spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security says the bicycle-taxi rider (...)

02-05-2019 ■ The 20th Summit of EAC Heads of State was finally held in Arusha-Tanzania on February 1 after its postponement for two times respectively on 30 November and 27 December 2018. Burundian politicians, however, diverge on the summit outcomes. Tatien Sibomana, spokesperson for the coalition of independent “Amizero y’Abarundi”, appreciates (...)

02-01-2019 ■ One month not enough to leave Buterere wastewater plant, residents say The government has given one month to the people residing all around Buterere wastewater treatment plant in Ntahangwa urban commune to leave the locality. House owners denounce the decision. Ladislas Mugisha, a father of two, has been living (...)

01-31-2019 ■ The Regional Director of East and Southern Africa at the International Fund for Agricultural Development visited, on 30 January, different projects financed by IFAD in Bubanza province. Beneficiaries appreciate the step made in rural transformation. Sara Mbago Bhunu, Regional Director of the East and Southern Africa at the International (...)