01-23-2019 ■ The ministry of communication says the project of the national television to move from analog to digital system is ongoing and about to reach the final stage. Frédéric Nahimana, Minister of Communication, says within 3 months, the national television will broadcast in a digital system. “The project is at (...)

01-22-2019 ■ Local farmers from Gihanga commune in Bubanza province received cows as part of a program involved in the fight against hunger. However, they die one after the other due to unknown diseases. Beneficiaries are worried. The provincial official in charge of breeding reassures. Some of the local farmers are (...)

01-22-2019 ■ Forty seven families made of 471 people from Mugaruro area, Buterere zone in Ntahangwa commune, in the north of the capital Bujumbura are now gathered at the former offices of Mutimbuzi commune in Bujumbura province. They left their destroyed houses due to the heavy rain that fell last week (...)

01-21-2019 ■ From last week, the coalition of the opposition in exile-CNARED suffers defections. Some observers think it is living its last moments. Is everything lost for the coalition? Response elements. Members of CNARED are leaving the platform one by one. Words such as ‘disappointment’ and ‘failure’ appear many times in (...)

01-19-2019 ■ A family of six died in a landslide due to flood caused by the torrential rain that fell in the night of this January 18, 2019 in Muyira zone of Kanyosha commune in Bujumbura province. A whole family made of a husband, his wife and their four children (one (...)

01-18-2019 ■ After some members of UPRONA party addressed a correspondence to the chairman of the party asking him to resign, two MPs from Rumonge were excluded from the party. The latter denounce injustice Gloriose Nimenya, one of the expelled MPs who signed the correspondence says it is illegal to expel (...)

01-17-2019 ■ After concerns by MPs about relocating the political capital from Bujumbura to Gitega, they ended up adopting a bill setting Gitega as a political capital of Burundi. Simon Bizimungu, MP elected in Cibitoke constituency says to be concerned over the families’ life after the relocation of the capital. “There (...)

01-15-2019 ■ Some members of the UPRONA party executive committee addressed a correspondence this January 6 to the president of the party asking him to stand down. They accuse him of mismanaging the party resources and violating of internal regulations. Abel Gashatsi, the president of UPRONA party is accused, among other (...)

01-14-2019 ■ Political party leaders met on January 4 to analyze the bill on the amendment to the Electoral Code. Other politicians regretted not having been associated while the matter is very important. The meeting was characterized by notable absences of participants from UPRONA and FRODEBU parties as well as those (...)

01-11-2019 ■ In a one-week retreat held in Ngozi Province from 8 January, the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has warned the members of the commission to not reveal any information without an official permission and avoid having ties with the former commission’s team. On 8 January, Pierre Claver (...)