02-28-2017 ■ The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation- CVR has started this 27 February to conduct the excavation of bones piled up in mass graves in Gasenyi locality of Makamba zone in Rusaka Commune of Mwaro Province. CVR Members, experts in excavation of bones from mass graves, police officers in (...)

02-28-2017 ■ Jocky Chantal Nkurunziza, Second Deputy Head of Burundi Parliament has issued a statement this Monday 27 February 2017 to react to the declaration of the’ Francophonie’ Parliament (AFP) made on 4 February 2017 on the current situation in Burundi. APF said it is worried about figures spread by the (...)

02-27-2017 ■ Women from the EAC met on 24 February and established the East African women solidarity movement for peace and security in the region. They have the main objective of fostering the African women solidarity and pleading for Burundi. “The Burundian issue in the region is not sufficiently discussed and (...)

02-27-2017 ■ UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, presented a report on 23 February to the UNSC. He expressed his concern about the willingness of Burundian President to run for a 4th term that would risk intensifying violence in Burundi and undermining collective efforts towards a lasting solution. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (...)

02-27-2017 ■ The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation-CVR started a month ago to identify the number of mass graves existing in Burundi from 1972 to 2008, but there is a long way to go. “From 1972 up to date, there is an estimated number of 2,500 mass graves in Burundi”, (...)

02-27-2017 ■ The 4th session of the inter-Burundian dialogue under the auspices of the Tanzanian facilitator ended on Sunday 19 February. A session marked by an about-turn, calls especially to the Heads of State of the region for help. The fate of this process remains in their hands.   The message (...)

02-24-2017 ■ A team of eight soldiers from the Burundian contingent in MINUSCA, the African Union’s peacekeeping force in Central African republic, has received training on the use of “phantom” surveillance drones, says Gaspard Baratuza, spokesman for Burundi National Defence forces (FDN) on 23 February 2017. «This device will play a (...)

02-23-2017 ■ The UN has removed from its peacekeeping mission Major Nicolas Budigi over allegations of human rights violations in Burundi. The UN has repatriated Burundi army officer Major Nicolas Budigi from MINUSCA, a UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic (CAR). The repatriation followed allegations that the officer has been (...)

02-23-2017 ■ On 21 February 2017, Evelyne Butoyi, Burundian Senator, wrote an open letter to William Benjamin Mkapa, facilitator in the Burundi crisis, to express her view about the dialogue session recently held in Arusha. “It is an open letter that contains my personal view of the inter-Burundian dialogue process, as (...)

02-22-2017 ■ Former 2nd Deputy-President Alice Nzomukunda came back to Burundi on 20 January 2017, after four years of exile in Belgium. She came with Joseph Ntidendereza and Mathias Basabose, two other politicians of the opposition. “Some time ago I was not in Burundi. I want to correct some people who (...)