10-12-2016 ■ The incident happened on 10 October night around 8 pm, in Bugarama municipality of Rumonge province in the south of Burundi. Sources on the ground say that a group of gunmen threw grenades and fired point blank at people who were drinking in a bar belonging to the Head (...)

10-11-2016 ■ Burundi has just declared a suspension of any form of cooperation and collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights-OHCHR until further notice. The declaration cites the “untruthful and controversial” United Nations Independent Investigation Report on Burundi-UNIIB accusing the government of grave violations of (...)

10-10-2016 ■ No death penalty in Burundi since 2009. But extrajudicial killings are common. Additionally, there are signs that the penalty might be reintroduced. As the world celebrates the World Day against Death Penalty, the abolition of the penalty in Burundi is threatened by the prevalence of extrajudicial killings and hints (...)

10-10-2016 ■ Burundi government accuses EU of having dictated the recent UN report to destabilize the country. The UN Council for Human Rights adopted on 30 September in Geneva, Switzerland, a resolution on Burundi by setting up an independent commission of inquiry which will determine the perpetrators of violations of human (...)

10-06-2016 ■ On 4 October, Albert Nduwimana, Ngozi Northern Province governor said Rwandans accompanied by forty soldiers destroyed a house under construction on Sabanerwa hill of Mwumba Commune in Ngozi Province. He spoke of outright provocation and indicated that adequate measures are being taken to protect citizens. Térence Ntahiraja, spokesman for (...)

10-05-2016 ■ Seven months after the EU suspended the financial direct aid to the Burundian Government, its delegation has carried out a two day-visit in the country to assess the current situation. Conclusion: there is still a long way to go. “We have looked into different cases such as human rights, (...)

10-04-2016 ■ At a press conference that Evariste Ndayishimiye, the secretary general of the ruling party, held yesterday after his visit to Benjamin Mkapa the facilitator in the inter-Burundian dialogue, he said he asked him to help in the repatriation of exiled politicians by reassuring them and convincing their host countries (...)

10-03-2016 ■ Ten persons including a journalist at Radio Maria were arrested on 2 October evening at 9th Avenue of Mutakura neighborhood in the northern part of the Burundian capital. “Several soldiers and policemen came running. Some of them entered a house where they found people holding a meeting of their (...)

10-03-2016 ■ The EINUB report that contains serious charges against Burundi government has triggered protests in the streets of the capital. Is the reaction a result of dignity or fear? The report of the United Nations Independent investigation on Burundi (EINUB), which deals with violations and abuses of human rights committed (...)

09-30-2016 ■ The East African Community (EAC) Court of Justice found the complaints about President Pierre Nkurunziza’s third term unfounded. The EAC’s civil society collective, EACSOF, made the complaints but the court said it cannot rule on a case already decided by the local courts. Burundi’ government represented by the Lawyer (...)