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. (...)

02-11-2019 ■ Benjamin Mkapa has announced the end of a deadlocked facilitation and the EAC Heads of state have decide that the question of dialogue will be dealt with later, etc. The summit ignored the Burundian crisis. They put off the question of the inter-Burundian dialogue indefinitely. The 21st of the (...)

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 ■ While the Burundian dialogue is deadlocked, a summit of Heads of State of the sub-region is being held this Friday, 1 February. What can we expect from this session? Some of the answers. Burundians have held their breath on the eve of the summit. Optimists speak of the summit (...)

01-29-2019 ■ At least eight people have been seriously wounded in a grenade attack by an unknown perpetrator in a bar commonly known as « Chez Egide Nduwayo » on 9th avenue in Buterere zone of Ntahangwa commune, in the north of the capital Bujumbura. “It was around 7:40 p.m. in (...)

01-28-2019 ■ The First Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly goes back over the current issues at the beginning of this pre-election year. He expresses himself about the state of play on the approval of his new political party , the electoral code, his participation in the next elections, the life (...)

01-26-2019 ■ UNHCR denies reports that it would have distributed military clothes to the Burundian refugees living in Nduta camp in Tanzania. At a press conference held this January 25, Gogo Hukportie, UNHCR representative in Burundi, said UNHCR could not give unsuitable clothes because it fully respects cultural, legal and religious (...)