05-18-2020 ■ With voters’ lists not posted, voters without voting cards, the opposition “sidelined” in several polling stations, political activists in prison and others in hiding, etc, the National electoral commission  is accused of failing to fulfill its mission. For its part, it explains that the process is properly carried out. (...)

05-15-2020 ■ Officials of the opposition party CNL in Nyabiraba commune, Bujumbura province say they live in hiding following death threats they receive from members of the ruling party CNDD-FDD. “Since the arrest of our comrade Vianney Iradukunda, we no longer sleep at home,” one CNL representative in Nyabiraba commune told (...)

05-15-2020 ■ The UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi condemned the expulsion of four WHO officials amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Burundi. “The decision of the Burundian Government to declare persona non grata WHO Country Representative and three of its experts and ordering them to leave Burundi before 15 May is (...)

05-15-2020 ■ Walter Kazadi Mulombo, Country Representative of the World Health Organization in Burundi and three experts Tarzy Daniel, Ruhana Mirindi and Jean Pierre Mulunda have been declared « persona non grata » in Burundi. According to a note verbale sent to the WHO Representation Office for Africa in Brazzaville in (...)

05-14-2020 ■ Jackson Simbananiye aka “Kirahwata”, one of the most popular forex dealers in Bujumbura City was discovered dead in the morning of May 14. His corpse was found in a gutter located along “Imprimerie” avenue, section II of Nyakabiga neighborhood of Mukaza commune in central Bujumbura city. Local sources reported (...)

05-14-2020 ■ Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) has said no international observers will be deployed in Burundi to supervise the elections set to take place on May 20 due to the outbreak of COVID-19. At a press conference held in the economic capital Bujumbura this (...)

05-13-2020 ■ The electoral campaign for the next elections scheduled for May 20, 2020 has been taking place across the country for two weeks. “Cases of violence have decreased during the second week of the campaign,” said Pierre Nkurikiye, spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Security at a press conference held (...)

05-13-2020 ■ In a statement issued on May 11, Bishop Joachim Ntahondereye, Chairman of the Conference of Burundi Catholic Bishops has said the wrong attitudes displayed by some candidates in the electoral campaign prompt others to political intolerance. “We are particularly concerned over this intolerance that led to confrontations, killings and (...)

05-12-2020 ■ One day before the end of a one-week extension granted by the Independent National Electoral Commission(CENI) to some citizens to withdraw their voting cards at the offices the of Communal Electoral Commission (CECI), several people deplore that they have not yet received their cards. This chance was given to (...)

05-12-2020 ■ Local sources reported a grenade explosion in a bar known as “Choice Ziko Bar-belonging to a certain Patrick” located on 11th avenue in Twinyoni locality of Kamenge neighborhood in the north of Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi, in the night of May 10. “It was around 7 p.m. (...)