04-06-2018 ■ The Investment Promotion Agency (API) has said it is unable to regulate all the companies operating in Burundi due to limited budget. Léonard Sentore, Director of API, has said that this Thursday 05 April. While informing the public about the achievements of the agency during the first term of (...)

04-05-2018 ■ The National Assembly has analyzed and unanimously adopted a bill on the creation of the national volunteers’ body. Jean Bosco Hitimana, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture has said the body will be managed by the National Center of Volunteers in Burundi that will be set up by a (...)

04-05-2018 ■ The provisional lists of registered voters are posted in different registration centers since April 3. At some registration centers in Bujumbura city where Iwacu passed, there were some irregularities, worries, complaints, etc. At a registration center located at Musaga Communal Lycée, a number of people were searching for their (...)

04-04-2018 ■ Faustin Ndikumana, Chairman of PARCEM, a local organization concerned with the changing of mindset, says the underdevelopment of Burundian communes is due to the lack of competent staff, visible institutional support and strategic directions. He says the priority of the community’s development must focus on five trends namely good (...)

04-04-2018 ■ Burundi is hosting the 16th annual meeting of the African Association of Lawyers of Banking and Financial Institutions (AJBEF) since 3 April. For 3 days, banking law professionals representing 12 African countries will be discussing the challenges that the sector is faced with, said Clément Nduwimana, the chairman of (...)

04-04-2018 ■ More than 300 followers of Eusébie Ngendakumana have spent the night at Mparamirundi communal lycée in Busiga commune of Ngozi Northern Province. They arrived yesterday evening after crossing the northern Kanyaru border post. They say they are happy to be back home and hope that they won’t be persecuted (...)

04-03-2018 ■ After the return of 1604 followers of Eusébie Ngendakumana, said to be “prophetess” returned from Rwanda at Easter crossing Gasenyi-Nemba border in Kirundo province, two other groups were repatriated this Monday, April 2. The first group of 517 people crossed Kanyaru border post in Kayanza province. They spent the (...)

04-03-2018 ■ Two people were killed and 14 others wounded in a grenade attack that occurred in the night of 1 April, in a bar on Rugari-Gitamo hill, known as Ceru in Gitega Commune, in Gitega Central province. Sources on the ground report that several people were sharing a drink when (...)

04-03-2018 ■ The provisional lists of all registered voters throughout the country will be published from 3 to 6 April. Annonciate Niyonkuru, Deputy Chairperson of the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI says the commission’s agents in charge of posting lists are deployed in different registration offices to facilitate the verification task from (...)

04-02-2018 ■ The opposition platform in exile calls on Burundians to boycott the constitutional referendum. Lack of realism for some people. “Boycott” is the instruction launched by CNARED in a statement released in the evening of last Wednesday. In concrete terms, it is not a question of participating in the referendum (...)