06-26-2017 ■ On 26 June each year, the world celebrates the Day against Abuse and Drug Trafficking. People who used drugs in Burundi are in dire straits and say the society ostracizes them. “The relationships between drug users and their relatives are not good at all”, says Orly Ndahigeze, 22, a (...)

04-20-2017 ■ The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights says it is concerned about the video showing young men affiliated to the ruling party calling for rape against females from the opposition. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed on 18 April a great alarm at (...)

03-25-2017 ■ About 8,000 people had contracted tuberculosis in Burundi in 2016. More than 4,000 suffered from contagious tuberculosis, said the Minister of Health marking World Tuberculosis Day on 24 March. Hungry sufferers say that their tuberculosis cannot be cured as long as they have nothing to eat. More than 10 (...)

03-14-2017 ■ The Minister of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS said yesterday that malaria has become an epidemic in Burundi. About 2 million people have contracted malaria since January 2017 and about 700 people have died of the disease in the same period, says the minister. “Over 700 people (...)

01-26-2017 ■ Eleven young girls from Gitega central province and six others from Cibitoke western province are reported to have been sexually abused by two teachers from those provinces. A psychologist talks of an ignoble behavior that needs to be strongly discouraged in the society. In Buganda Commune of Cibitoke Province, (...)

10-26-2016 ■ Non-profit groups PISC-Burundi and CAPES+ have made a joint declaration in which they praise the recent government’s crackdown on major civil rights and other non-profit groups. For Hamza Venant Burikukiye, the legal representative of CAPES+, those banned and suspended civil society organizations did not abide by their statute and (...)

10-17-2016 ■ A fraud who wanted to defraud a pastor was apprehended by the police yesterday. The police have arrested a suspected foreign conman who intended to defraud a female pastor of $1700. The suspect posed as an international charity organisation worker. “He told the pastor he worked for “Robinson Donald” (...)

09-01-2016 ■ Jacques Roy passed away on Wednesday, 31 August at 10 am; he is victim of cardiac arrest. He was attending a UNHCR meeting with other heads of United Nations Agencies when he was taken ill. He retreated to a side room and after the first aids on the spot, (...)

12-02-2015 ■ It is at St Michel Parish where the mayor of Bujumbura celebrated the world Aids day against HIV/AIDS. (...)

01-26-2015 ■ On 22 January 2015, The Red Cross of Burundi (RCB) in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented a contingency plan to help with the 2015 election process.-By J.Berchmans Siboniyo “We don’t know what tomorrow will bring. We have written a contingency plan to prevent probable violence from (...)