11-19-2018 ■ Smaël Chergui, African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security conducted a visit to Burundi from 5 to 7 November. His passage seems far from saving the deadlocked inter-Burundian dialogue. His arrival was not hugely talked about. Smaël Chergui came to Bujumbura in a particular context: the day after the (...)

11-14-2018 ■ Jean Claude Ndenzako, Spokesperson for President Pierre Nkurunziza says foreigners cannot hinder or advance the inter-Burundian dialogue. Only Burundians should discuss their matters, he said this after the visit of Smaël Chergui, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security to Burundi for two days. Smaël Chergui visited Burundi from 5 (...)

11-12-2018 ■ The proposal for a way out of the crisis by the political class that was present in Arusha at the 5th round of the dialogue requires among other things the involvement of foreigners in some mechanisms. Bujumbura speaks about a utopia. The opposition does not beat about the bush. (...)

11-05-2018 ■ The “5th and last session of the inter-Burundian dialogue” boycotted by Bujumbura, CNDD-FDD and its allies has been concluded. Only the opposition was at Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge. Return on an announced failure of the regional mediation. By Abbas Mbazumutima, Iwacu special envoy. It is at Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge in (...)

10-31-2018 ■ After a week of deep discussions in the 5th round of the Inter-Burundian Dialogue, participants came up with a common roadmap i.e. the resolution proposal for Burundi crisis. However, politicians who were not present in the session strongly criticize it. Jean De Dieu Mutabazi, chairman of RADEBU party says (...)

10-30-2018 ■ The 5th session of the Inter-Burundian Dialogue that brought together the internal and external Burundian opposition has been closed on 29 October at ” Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge ”-in Arusha. A common roadmap also called a “crisis resolution proposal” was submitted to William Mkapa, facilitator in the Inter-Burundian dialogue. Ambassador (...)

10-29-2018 ■ At the opening of the 5th session of the inter-Burundian dialogue boycotted by the government, the facilitator acknowledged having done everything to convince Bujumbura to participate in this round in vain. He asked the opposition in Ngurdoto to propose a roadmap. To show the solemnity of this last session (...)

10-26-2018 ■ The National Assembly adopted on October 25 a bill amending the law on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The bill extends the mission of CVR over the period from Germany colonization in February 1885 to 4 December 2008. CVR mission was initially set between 1961 and 2008. Aloys Batungwanayo, (...)

10-25-2018 ■ After the launch of the 5th dialogue session was postponed to 25 October, the facilitator in the Inter-Burundian dialogue consulted with participants in the morning of 24 October at Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge in Arusha, Tanzania. Ambassador David Kapya, Senior Advisor at the office of the facilitator in the Inter-Burundian (...)

10-24-2018 ■ Previously scheduled in the afternoon of 24 October at Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge in Arusha, Tanzania, the 5th round of the Inter-Burundian dialogue has been postponed to 25 October. The office of the facilitation in Burundi talks didn’t give any explanation. According to some sources in Arusha, the facilitator would (...)