05-24-2018 ■ After Sindiso N’gwenya, Secretary General of COMESA declared on May 18th that the 20th summit of COMESA Heads of State and government which was expected to take place in Burundi from 1 to 10 June 2018 will be postponed and relocated to Lusaka, the Secretary of and Spokesman for (...)

05-23-2018 ■ Burundi organized a constitutional referendum on 17 May to change the current constitution adopted in 2005. Independent National Electoral Commission announced on 21 May that 73. 26% voted in favor of the new constitution while 19.36 voted against. Agathon Rwasa, Chairman of opposition coalition Amizero y’Abarundi says he is (...)

05-18-2018 ■ “Burundians voted yesterday for a new Constitution. It would lead to a shift of power in favor of the ruling party. The incumbent Burundi president could remain in office until 2034, “reads a press release issued by the Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany a day after (...)

05-17-2018 ■ Bujumbura inhabitants like all Burundians, have participated massively in the constitutional referendum held this May 17, 2017. Voting began at 6 am in the morning. Until noon, more than half of the expected voters in Musaga, Kanyosha and Kinindo neighborhoods in the south of Bujumbura had already voted. Some (...)

05-17-2018 ■ “It’s a big step for the Burundi music industry if artists’ pieces of work are protected,” said on 16 May Yves Kami, Burundian musician and singer in response to the circular of the Minister of Culture published on 15 May 2018. According to Pélate Niyonkuru, Minister of Culture, the (...)

05-15-2018 ■ A group of people carried out an attack which claimed the lives of 26 people and left 7 others injured in Ruhagarika area of Buganda Commune in Cibitoke western province, in the night of May 11 2018. “The first elements of the investigation reveal that these criminals came from (...)

05-11-2018 ■ Resolution 2372 provides for the withdrawal of troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) by 2021. However, this operation will take into account the realities on the ground. “Indeed, this resolution states that in 2021, the transition will have to be completed. But, it stipulates that this (...)

05-09-2018 ■ A number of students from the University of Burundi, Mutanga Campus, accuse their fellows affiliated to the ruling CNDD-FDD, also members of a joint security committee of torturing them. The victims demand that security be ensured by the police. The chief of the police station in charge of ensuring (...)

05-08-2018 ■ Sources report that police officers alongside agents of the National Intelligence Service arrested five people including the former administrator of Buyenzi Commune Barthazar Nzeyimana. They were all at his home located on the 21th Avenue in Buyenzi district in the center of the capital Bujumbura in the night of (...)

05-05-2018 ■ On the third day of the referendum campaign, the National Rally for Change (RANAC) has decided not to run campaign for the constitutional referendum. “We will not participate in the referendum. It is a government affair,” Aloys Baricako, chairman of RANAC told journalist on 4 May. He said RANAC (...)