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Environment

Buterere: No access to dumping ground due to scattered waste around it
03-19-2019
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Domestic waste risks overflowing into households in Mugarura quarter of Buterere zone in Ntahangwa urban commune in the north of Bujumbura capital. Trucks used to collect waste do not have access to the dumping ground. “The road to this place is now blocked”, says one of the employees of (...)
EAC integration

Burundi to address e-waste management problem
03-19-2019
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Burundi hosts the 4th regional workshop on sustainable e-waste management in the east African region and East African Communications Organization Working Group- EACO WG 7 from this March 18. Donatien Manirampa, Director General of Burundi agency of telecommunication regulation-ARCT says Burundi collects over 30 thousand tons of e-waste every (...)
Society

ActionAid committed to Women’s effective employability
03-17-2019
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Put aside the relevant issue concerning valuing women’s work, the exchange workshop organized on Friday, March 15 by Actionaid, put a spotlight on women’s employability. “A real quiet force that it is worth making profitable,” said Léopold Bizimana, President of the Standing Committee on Human Rights at Burundi National (...)
Society

Together, let’s value women’s work!
03-17-2019
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As part of the activities organized for the celebration of the day dedicated to women’s rights this Friday March 15, the NGO Action Aid held an exchange workshop with the actors in the protection of women’s rights. The theme was “The woman at the center of innovative programs of (...)
Politics

600 Burundi troops soon to return from Somalia
03-17-2019
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Floribert Biyereke, Burundi Army spokesperson has said 600 Burundian soldiers out of 1000 who were supposed to have returned from Somalia are ready to come back home very soon. “They are still in Somalia for work reasons,” he said adding that all AMISOM officials are aware of the issue. (...)
Security

600 Burundi troops soon to return from Somalia
03-16-2019
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Floribert Biyereke, Burundi Army spokesperson has said 600 Burundian soldiers out of 1000 who were supposed to have returned from Somalia are ready to come back home very soon. “They are still in Somalia for work reasons,” he said adding that all AMISOM officials are aware of the issue. (...)
Environment

Collapsed ravine destroys three houses in south of Bujumbura
03-15-2019
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A collapsed ravine has already caused the destruction of at least three houses leaving others threatened in Muha urban commune, in the south of the Burundian capital. The population asks for the government intervention. Pasteur Bizimana, owner of a house that has been destroyed, says the gully was noticed (...)
Human Right

Batwa women faced with several problems
03-15-2019
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Discrimination, under-representation in decision-making bodies, lack of land and raw materials for pottery, are among the problems encountered by Batwa women in Burundi. Esperance Minani, a Mutwa from Mwaro, says in the past, a Mutwa woman lived on pottery. Today, it is no longer possible due to the lack (...)
Health

Health officials and decision makers called on to support kidney disease patients
03-15-2019
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On the celebration of the World Kidney Day this 14 March, “Vision Santé”, the club of students in medicine faculty at Ngozi private University in close collaboration with CMCK Hospital has organized a one-day campaign to screen people for kidney disease risk factors. It is around 10 a.m at (...)
Politics

Oral briefing by UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi differently viewed
03-14-2019
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Tatien Sibomana, spokesman for the coalition of Independents “Amizero y’Abarundi” says the oral briefing presented by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi-COI at the 40th session of Human Rights Council is somewhat true. “Remember why the commission has been established. During the constitutional referendum campaign in 2018, those (...)