02-08-2018 ■ Following the funding appeal of USD 391 million by the UNHCR to support 430,000 Burundian refugees in 2018, the Ministry of Home Affairs accuses the agency of providing and working on wrong figures. Térence Ntahiraja, Assistant to and Spokesperson for the Ministry of Home Affairs says the UN Refugees (...)

02-07-2018 ■ Over 50 families in the Rohe area have already moved out since the banks of Kanyosha River are gradually collapsing, thus, causing the demolition of the surrounding houses. Rohe area is located at about 3 km from the national road RN7 (Bujumbura-Rutovu) in Kamesa neighborhood of Musaga zone in (...)

02-02-2018 ■ The officially known dump of Mubone in Buterere Zone in the north of Bujumbura has not been operational since the past few weeks. The office of Bujumbura Mayor has temporarily set up a new garbage dump in Gisyo area of Kanyosha zone in the south of Bujumbura while waiting (...)

02-02-2018 ■ More than 9 people have died of malaria since January 2018 in Ngozi province. Health officials fear the increasing number of malaria cases and demand that Burundi Central Department that purchases pharmaceutical products-CAMEBU increases the quantity of amodiaquine and artesunate medicines. When someone arrives at Ngozi Hospital, they see (...)

02-01-2018 ■ The presence of the US Ambassador at the launching ceremonies of the project to give out ID cards to Batwa community in Muhanga commune of Kayanza Northern Province, on Tuesday 30 January, did not go down well with the Kayanza province administration. Anicet Niyongabo, Governor of Kayanza province decided (...)

01-31-2018 ■ Since they have been ordered to leave their plots of land which were later distributed to a certain “Joseph Gahushi”, about 5000 homes from Kizina hill of Gihanga Commune in Bubanza western province have come, this 30 January, to the office of Burundi Ombudsman to demand the answer to (...)

01-30-2018 ■ An epidemic has recently ravaged goats in Gitega, Mwaro and Kirundo provinces. The minister of agriculture and livestock reassures breeders who have lost their goats that the World Bank is going to compensate them. “The goats that died were imported from Uganda in November 2017 through the Lake Victoria (...)

01-30-2018 ■ About 1200 Congolese refugees have arrived in Rumonge Port located in Rumonge southern province this 29 January. They say they come from “Ubwari” island in DRC and are fleeing confrontations between the DRC Army-FARDC and Mayi-Mayi rebellion that have arisen since January 23. However, most of them prefer to (...)

01-29-2018 ■ Bujumbura residents complain these days that their solid wastes are no longer removed from their houses. Bags are deposited in different corners and streets of the capital Bujumbura. “We don’t know the reasons behind the delay in collecting them. The company in charge of removing wastes has just spent (...)

01-26-2018 ■ More than 2000 people from South Kivu in DRC crossed the Congolese border to Rumonge commune in Burundi. These people flee armed confrontations between the Congolese army- FARDC and the rebels known as Mayi Mayi Yakutumba. Those refugees come from South Kivu province in the territory of Fizi in (...)