08-07-2018 ■ Following the imminent coup to remove the presidency of the opposition platform in exile at the beginning of July, members of CNARED met from 4 to 5 August to discuss two main issues including their reunion. Pancrace Cimpaye, CNARED Spokesperson says it is normal that misunderstandings occur among about (...)

08-06-2018 ■ Tanzanian authorities conducted a massive campaign to incite Burundian refugees to return home. The latter fear an imminent “forced” repatriation. Several organizations pull the emergency cord. Speeches and acts of Tanzanian high authorities that sound like threats to Burundian refugees. Their speeches are about peace and security in Burundi. (...)

08-03-2018 ■ At least 25 children were arrested on August 1st 2018 in Rumonge commune. 15 of them are hosted by FVS AMADE, an association that protects orphans and vulnerable children, while ten others are still kept by the police until this august 02. Those children are aged between 8 and (...)

08-03-2018 ■ The director of the National Integrated Food and Nutrition Program at the ministry of health says the maternal breastfeeding situation in Burundi is satisfactory. He calls on mothers to breastfeed their children as long as possible. On the occasion of the week dedicated to maternal breastfeeding, Alain Parfait Bimenyimana, (...)

08-02-2018 ■ The upper chamber of parliament has opened the second session of its activities this August 1, 2018. Among the items on the agenda, there is the inquiry about ethnic quota on staff recruitment by foreign NGOs. Members of the senate plan to invite a government representative to give clarifications (...)

08-02-2018 ■ The Burundi Ministry of the Interior plans to hold a dialogue session with political leaders on 3 August in Kayanza Province, northern Burundi. Térence Ntahiraja, the assistant to the Minister of the Interior says the purpose of the session will be to discuss the road map to the 2020 (...)

08-01-2018 ■ “The Anti-Corruption Court and the General Prosecutor’s Office at the same court recovered over BIF 980 million in the first half of 2018,” said Alphonsine Ndizeye, spokesperson for the Anti-Corruption Court when she presented the report of the first half of the year on Monday, July 30. “The Anti-Corruption (...)

08-01-2018 ■ After Burundian refugees in Tanzania expressed their fear about forced repatriation and worries about Burundi government collaboration with Tanzania, the interior ministry rejects the accusation. Térence Ntahiraja, Assistant to the Interior Minister, says Burundi is not informed about the case of forced repatriation of Burundian refugees living in Tanzania. (...)

07-31-2018 ■ Burundian refugees from Mutenderi, Nduta and Nyarugusi refugee camps in Tanzania are gripped with fear of being forcibly repatriated. They accuse Tanzanian authorities of intimidating and forcing them to return to Burundi. Some refugees, however, says that they are not ready to return to Burundi. Last week, Emmanuel Maganga, (...)

07-31-2018 ■ Around 4,000 people have been reported victims of human trafficking in Burundi since 2015. FENADEB has said this during the celebration of World Day against Trafficking in Persons this 30 July, 2018. Jacques Nshimirimana, chairman of the National Federation of Associations Defending Children rights-FENADEB, says human trafficking in Burundi (...)