11-11-2019 ■ Opposition parties lay into the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI). According to them, this commission favored the ruling CNDD-FDD party in the composition of its dismemberments. CENI rather speaks of a well done job. According to Térence Manirambona, spokesman for the National Congress for Liberty (CNL), his party got (...)

11-09-2019 ■ The son of LéonceNgendakumana, Deputy Chairman of Sahwanya-FRODEBU party is detained at the Special Research Bureau (BSR) since November 7 and is undergoing interrogation. Mr Ngendakumana believes he was arrested for political reasons. Lambert Bibonimana, was kidnapped in the night of November 7 around 9 p.m. by unidentified people (...)

11-08-2019 ■ Eighteen days after the four Iwacu news reporters and their driver were arrested and got thrown into Bubanza prison, the Corruption watchdog-OLUCOME calls on Burundian authorities to release them. Gabriel Rufyiri, Chairman of Observatory for the fight against corruption and embezzlement- OLUCOME, says the four Iwacu news reporters and (...)

11-08-2019 ■ The secretary general of National Congress for Liberty (CNL), an opposition party, says there would be a plan to eliminate leaders of the CNL. He accuses some officials of the ruling CNDD-FDD party and some administrative officials of being behind that plan. “CNL party has obtained information about a (...)

11-08-2019 ■ Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission –CENI says it is unfortunate that there are still reports of political intolerance throughout the country six months before the 2020 elections. “This is a clear indication that some people have not benefited from the campaign on the strengthening (...)

11-07-2019 ■ “Malaria epidemic did not occur in Burundi in 2019,” said Jean Bosco Girukwishaka, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health at a press conference held on 6 November. He however admits that, cases of malaria have increased this year compared to last year. He says that this increase in (...)

11-07-2019 ■ Nestor Bankumukunzi, Chairman of the National Media Regulatory Authority has said the CNC is not yet informed about the detention of the four Iwacu news reporters and their driver. “The Media Regulatory Authority is not aware of the motives behind their detention,” he said adding that if the four (...)

11-06-2019 ■ Musaga III Basic School located in the south of the Burundian economic capital Bujumbura is gradually collapsing due to a raging torrent of Mpimba River water. The school leaders and the surrounding inhabitants raise the alarm. The concrete wall which used to protect the banks of Mpimba River has (...)

11-05-2019 ■ Lawyers of the four news reporters of Iwacu Press Group and their driver detained for «complicity in undermining the state internal security ” have appealed this Monday, November 4, to Ntahangwa Appeal Court in Bujumbura City. The appeal file is to reconsider the decision made by the Judge’s Council (...)

11-05-2019 ■ The new political party-Front for Ideological and Democratic Change (FCID) Imvugakuri applied for approval this Monday, November 4 at the Ministry of the Interior. Dénis Nduwayo, the legal representative of this party made up of young people and leaders “concerned with development change” says their goal is to find (...)