10-11-2016 ■ Since Carama site displaced persons were forcibly moved by the administration from “Ku mase” place near lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura city in February 2014, Burundi government is currently urging them to return to their native villages. 239 families of about 1000 people are sheltered in precarious huts and tents (...)

10-07-2016 ■ “I am very relieved to hear we will get clean water. We’ve been longing for it for a long time. We live in a seriously health-threatening situation here”, said the overjoyed Quentin Marc Ngendakumana, the local head of Kagwema area. He was speaking at an event inaugurating the construction (...)

10-06-2016 ■ A second round of mobilization for malnutrition screening in children under 5 in the provinces of municipal and rural Bujumbura has started this Wednesday. The repetition of the screening activities is intended to get reliable data to help address that serious issue. Actors in the fight against malnutrition in (...)

10-05-2016 ■ Two people died in Mugoboka neighborhood, Rohero urban zone, in the center of the Burundian capital. Residents suspect cholera outbreak. They evoke the lack of drinking water as they consume water fetched from the Ntahangwa River. Both Generose Nkeshimana and Claude Bucumi, died on Thursday 28 September, 2016. They (...)

10-03-2016 ■ This Sunday, Bishop Evariste Ngoyagoye,the Bujumbura archbishop who led prayer at the Schoenstatt Marian Shrine at Gikungu Mount Zion, invited Catholic military and police officers to perform their missions with patriotism and wisdom. It was during their passage through the holy door of mercy. Jean-Berchmans Ndayitwayeko, Chaplain General of (...)

09-30-2016 ■ Fifteen months after students scaled the walls of the US embassy in Bujumbura seeking refuge from police, it’s business as usual at the embassy building. On 29 September, 176 Burundian students graduated from a 3-month English language course at the Rosa Parks American Corner, a section of the embassy (...)

09-29-2016 ■ Many reforms have been introduced recently in the Burundi educational system from basic to higher education. This school year 2016-2017, the first class of the basic school system adopted in 2013 in primary and secondary education started their first year of post-basic school. The schooling system provides trade learning (...)

09-29-2016 ■ The association of Women fighting against HIV/AIDS and Malaria-SFBLSP Burundi celebrated on 28 September the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion. Alarming figures reflect clandestine abortion despite several consequences. “We have conducted a sample investigation in four provinces including Bubanza, Cibitoke, Bujumbura and Bujumbura (...)

09-28-2016 ■ François Ngeze, the president of the national Association of Private Schools (known by its French acronym UPEP), decries the measure by the ministry of education requiring those schools to abide by the same regulations concerning post-basic school placement as public schools. He argues that if private schools admit in (...)

09-27-2016 ■ On 26 September, all public schools including primary and secondary schools started the new school year 2016-2017 with the first candidates of the “Fundamental School” system. There are some innovations despite challenges. Queues of people were formed in front of the offices of secondary schools’ headmasters. Parents, pupils and (...)