03-14-2018 ■ “About 4000 goats have died following a sheep and goats plague that struck Burundi for the first time in December 2017,” Déo Guide Rurema, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, told journalists on Tuesday, 13 March 2018. Ha added that the National Veterinary Laboratory of Bujumbura as well as the (...)

03-14-2018 ■ Following the meeting held from 9 to 10 March in Ngozi province, the central committee of the ruling party- CNDD-FDD has raised Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza to a visionary leader of the party. Evariste Ndayishimiye, Secretary General of the ruling party says President Pierre Nkurunziza has been chosen as (...)

03-13-2018 ■ Three representatives of local NGO involved in changing people’s mindset (PARCEM) accused of high treason were sentenced of 10 years’ imprisonment and BIF 200.000 each in fine by Muramvya High Court on 8 March. Faustin Ndikumana, PARCEM Chairman says his organization is shocked to hear the sentence pronounced against (...)

03-13-2018 ■ The National Commission for Lands and other Properties (CNTB) handed over yesterday a plot of 3 ha located in Kajaga district of Mutimbuzi Commune in Bujumbura province, to the descendants of Gahinga Issa represented by Bambarukontari Alexis. This parcel has been exploited by Evariste Ndizeye since 1991. The latter (...)

03-12-2018 ■ The Independent National Human Rights Commission has been demoted to status B. It denounces the “unfair decision” while others ensure that the latter is deserved. It is a severe blow to CNIDH. It is now relegated to status B; a gloomy status. Clearly, it loses its right to fully (...)

03-12-2018 ■ The police have arrested Evariste Minani, 48, a widower from Gitwa Hill, Gatsinda area of Mwumba commune in Ngozi Province, accusing him of raping his 18 old-year daughter. Since 8 March, he is jailed in Ngozi judicial police dungeon. Emmanuel Ndayizeye, administrator of Mwumba Commune says the perpetrator was (...)

03-09-2018 ■ On the occasion of the International Women’s Day which was celebrated on 8 March in Kayanza, some women from that province deplore the fact that their husbands mistreat them. Some say they are physically abused while others accuse their husbands of having concubines. “Some women and I are suffering (...)

03-09-2018 ■ About 2500 Burundian asylum seekers who were grouped in Kamanyola camp in south Kivu, DRC, went to Rwanda since 7 March. Dionyse Nyandwi, their spokesperson says they expect to find a peaceful place to live in. “We were persecuted by our Congolese neighbors and we think that we will (...)

03-09-2018 ■ While the world is celebrating the International Day for Women this Thursday 8 March 2018, Bujumbura saleswomen who do not have permanent places where they keep their goods say that they get no help from richer women who owns associations. Leaders of women’s associations ask them to join the (...)

03-08-2018 ■ Déo Guide Rurema, Minister of Agriculture has brought before parliament a bill on the management of pesticides which was later adopted by all MPs, this Wednesday 7 March 2018. Rurema says experts and other international organizations have shown that the good way of managing pesticides is to adopt a (...)