05-15-2018 ■ A group of people carried out an attack which claimed the lives of 26 people and left 7 others injured in Ruhagarika area of Buganda Commune in Cibitoke western province, in the night of May 11 2018. “The first elements of the investigation reveal that these criminals came from (...)

05-14-2018 ■ The chairman of OLUCOME, a corruption watchdog, deplores the use of state vehicles and public funds in the referendum campaign. He also denounces the transport of activists in trucks. “The observatory for the fight against corruption and economic embezzlement, OLUCOME, is taken aback by the use of government-owned vehicles (...)

05-14-2018 ■ The “Yes” or “No” campaign for constitutional revision is in ongoing. While some appreciate a smooth process, others speak of a campaign of intimidation.   Mabanda : The Imbonerakure, real lawmakers Since the beginning of the referendum campaign, the Imbonerakure- youth affiliated to the ruling party-reign supreme. On Friday (...)

05-12-2018 ■ Twenty four people died on the spot and two others at the hospital after their evacuation in Bujumbura city. This has been said this Saturday, May 12, by Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, Minister of Public Security, after an attack perpetrated in the night of this Friday in Ruhagarika area of Buganda (...)

05-11-2018 ■ Resolution 2372 provides for the withdrawal of troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) by 2021. However, this operation will take into account the realities on the ground. “Indeed, this resolution states that in 2021, the transition will have to be completed. But, it stipulates that this (...)

05-10-2018 ■ The activity of distributing voting cards to the population began this Thursday, May 9 all over the country. At various registration centers in Bujumbura city where Iwacu passed, people were in the queues and some could be heard expressing their discontent. At Lycée Municipal Musaga, in Muha commune, activities (...)

05-09-2018 ■ A number of students from the University of Burundi, Mutanga Campus, accuse their fellows affiliated to the ruling CNDD-FDD, also members of a joint security committee of torturing them. The victims demand that security be ensured by the police. The chief of the police station in charge of ensuring (...)

05-09-2018 ■ Prosper Ntahorwamiye, Communication Commissioner at the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has said the commission is still waiting for the lists of international observers. “CENI hasn’t so far got the list of international organizations that wish to monitor this referendum and this is done through diplomatic missions,” says Ntahorwamiye. He (...)

05-08-2018 ■ Prosper Ntahorwamiye, Spokesperson for the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI says the coalition of independents “Amizero y’Abarundi” has registered at the National Electoral Commission to run the campaign for the constitutional referendum scheduled for 17 May 2018. “As they have the right to conduct the referendum campaign, they also have (...)

05-08-2018 ■ Sources report that police officers alongside agents of the National Intelligence Service arrested five people including the former administrator of Buyenzi Commune Barthazar Nzeyimana. They were all at his home located on the 21th Avenue in Buyenzi district in the center of the capital Bujumbura in the night of (...)