10-29-2018 ■ At the opening of the 5th session of the inter-Burundian dialogue boycotted by the government, the facilitator acknowledged having done everything to convince Bujumbura to participate in this round in vain. He asked the opposition in Ngurdoto to propose a roadmap. To show the solemnity of this last session (...)

10-26-2018 ■ The National Assembly adopted on October 25 a bill amending the law on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The bill extends the mission of CVR over the period from Germany colonization in February 1885 to 4 December 2008. CVR mission was initially set between 1961 and 2008. Aloys Batungwanayo, (...)

10-26-2018 ■ The National Assembly passed yesterday the bill amending the law on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after a heated debate about the delimitation of the period to be covered by that commission. The passed bill notably provides for the extension of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-CVR missions for the (...)

10-26-2018 ■ The office of the facilitation in the Inter-Burundian dialogue has opened the 5th round of Burundi talks on 25 October without the presence of Bujumbura delegation. Burundi government says it will not be concerned with what will result from the dialogue sessions. William Benjamin Mkapa, facilitator in the Inter-Burundian (...)

10-25-2018 ■ After the launch of the 5th dialogue session was postponed to 25 October, the facilitator in the Inter-Burundian dialogue consulted with participants in the morning of 24 October at Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge in Arusha, Tanzania. Ambassador David Kapya, Senior Advisor at the office of the facilitator in the Inter-Burundian (...)

10-24-2018 ■ Previously scheduled in the afternoon of 24 October at Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge in Arusha, Tanzania, the 5th round of the Inter-Burundian dialogue has been postponed to 25 October. The office of the facilitation in Burundi talks didn’t give any explanation. According to some sources in Arusha, the facilitator would (...)

10-24-2018 ■ Prosper Ntahorwamiye, Spokesperson for government says Bujumbura will not attend the 5th round of the dialogue session scheduled from 24 to 29 October in Arusha, Tanzania. The October month is a mourning period for Burundians,” says Ntahorwamiye. He says Burundi government has informed the facilitation in the Inter-Burundian dialogue: (...)

10-22-2018 ■ In a statement issued on the eve of the 56th commemoration of the assassination of the independence hero, Bujumbura government openly accuses Belgium of having plotted his assassination. The statement risks exacerbating the already existing tensions. Burundi government openly accuses Belgium of having a great responsibility in the assassination (...)

10-20-2018 ■ Members of the government that was led by Melchior Ndadaye plead for a special honor for this democracy hero. They have said that in a public conference held this October 19, 2018 in remembrance of 25 years after his assassination. Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, former member of the cabinet at that (...)

10-20-2018 ■ Sahwanya FRODEBU party has decided to leave the opposition platform in exile CNARED from this 18 October, in order to work independently. It says it will keep following the ideology of Melchior Ndadaye, the democracy hero. Pierre Claver Nahimana, chairman of Sahwanya FRODEBU party says their withdrawal from the (...)