01-24-2018 ■ Abel Gashatsi, Chairman of UPRONA party says it is not easy to have an identification card following the increase in its price. “Our followers complained that they must pay an amount estimated between BIF 6,000 and BIF 10,000 to have an ID instead of BIF 500. Local administrative officials (...)

01-23-2018 ■ This musician and arranger with dual nationality (Burundian-Canadian) must have an operation in India. Burundian and Rwandan singers and artists are mobilizing to have him treated. Producers and musicians from Burundi and Rwanda are mobilizing for a fundraising campaign to save Aaron Tunga’s life. Burundian cultural journalists are also (...)

01-22-2018 ■ Those young people are from Burundi, DRC and Rwanda. They network for the development of the Great Lakes region by promoting entrepreneurial initiatives of young people. According to them, it is difficult to achieve their goal as long as the principles of a free and open market society are (...)

01-19-2018 ■ In its 29th session of the Universal Periodic Review(UPR) of the Human Rights Council (HRC) held in Geneva this 18 January, Burundi has been examined. Minister of Human Rights, Martin Nivyabandi has presented the report related to the current situation. “Things have improved and the President has promulgated different (...)

01-19-2018 ■ In its 28th annual world report made this Thursday 18 January, the Human Rights Watch has published a 643-page report reviewing the human rights practices in more than 90 countries including Burundi. The experts of the Human Rights Watch report that the political and human rights crisis that erupted (...)

01-18-2018 ■ In a correspondence addressed to the Speaker of the National Assembly, a group of 25 MPs of the Independent coalition “Amizero y’Abarundi” consider the process of collecting the contribution to 2020 elections as unclear and illegal. “We cannot support a process that violates the law”, reads the correspondence. They (...)

01-17-2018 ■ After 17 years, residents of Mirango I and II and Gituro zone of Kamenge neighborhood in the northern part of Bujumbura Capital are still claiming compensations after they lost their lands in 1999. “We had fled the civil war and when we returned, we found that our lands were (...)

01-16-2018 ■ All butchers in Gitega, Kirundo and Mwaro provinces are desperately worried as all markets of small ruminants have been temporarily suspended since 1st January 2018 until the situation comes to normal. They have been closed following the detection of an epidemic disease that has already caused deaths of several (...)

01-12-2018 ■ Burundi Investment Agency-API reports that 2289 companies have been registered with an expected 19 410 job created in 2017. Léonard Sentore, Director General of API says the number of companies registered has increased to 5, 3% while the employment expectations increased to 10, 6% compared to 2016 achievements. Sentore (...)

01-12-2018 ■ Prosper Niyoboke, Dean of Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences and Management at the University of Lake Tanganyika says the country has to draw up some strategies to find solutions to the budget deficit. He refers to the warning of the corruption watchdog-OLUCOME stating that the current expenses are (...)