04-23-2018 ■ With less than a month left for the constitutional referendum to take place, voices still rise calling Bujumbura to stop this process. An unsuccessful request so far. It only remains a few weeks before the constitutional referendum takes place. The electoral commission is active to meet the deadline scheduled (...)

04-19-2018 ■ “The government never declared that it intends to boycott the inter-Burundian dialogue since it takes the latter as a priority in the resolution of the problems that the country is facing,” reads the statement issued on 17 April. The statement read by Philippe Nzobonariba, Secretary General of the government, (...)

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 (...)

03-22-2018 ■ Kigali hosted yesterday an extraordinary summit of the African Continental Free Trade Area [AfCFTA]. Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza says Burundi was not represented for security reasons. He accuses Rwanda of hosting the plotters of the May 2015 coup. Burundi and other member countries of the African Union have received (...)

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 (...)

03-05-2018 ■ The EAC Heads of State reaffirmed their support for mediation in the Burundian crisis. A mandate too many, some people say. Mkapa remains in control. The facilitator in the Burundi conflict has received the support of the Heads of State of the sub-region. At the last summit held on (...)

12-14-2017 ■ Children’s conditions have improved since Burundi signed the African Charter on children’s Rights and Welfare. However, there is still a way to go. This was said by a Burundian civil society during the presentation of its report on the children’s rights situation in Burundi before the African Union committee (...)

11-29-2017 ■ The National Council for the Arusha Agreement Respect and Rule of Law-CNARED, an opposition platform in exile, has just elected new members to the executive board in Belgium, this 28 November. The newly elected CNARED executive board says it plans to continue with its struggle for a negotiated solution (...)

11-28-2017 ■ The National Council for the Respect of the Arusha Agreement (CNARED), the main platform of Burundi opposition in exile, asks the facilitation to postpone the on-going dialogue. In a statement issued by CNARED on 27 November, Pancrace Cimpaye, CNARED spokesman, asks the facilitation to postpone the 4th session of (...)

11-20-2017 ■ Tanzanian and Ugandan Presidents condemn the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to investigate Burundi. The Heads of State say this measure hampers efforts to promote peace in Burundi. Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli went to meet his Ugandan counterpart in Masaka, Uganda on Sunday 11 November. At the end (...)