01-22-2019 ■ Local farmers from Gihanga commune in Bubanza province received cows as part of a program involved in the fight against hunger. However, they die one after the other due to unknown diseases. Beneficiaries are worried. The provincial official in charge of breeding reassures. Some of the local farmers are (...)

01-17-2019 ■ After concerns by MPs about relocating the political capital from Bujumbura to Gitega, they ended up adopting a bill setting Gitega as a political capital of Burundi. Simon Bizimungu, MP elected in Cibitoke constituency says to be concerned over the families’ life after the relocation of the capital. “There (...)

01-10-2019 ■ In a press conference held this Wednesday 9, the ombudsman says suppliers of fruit plants will be given half of their money. The government of Burundi owes BIF 5,061,280,790 for the supply of fruit plants since 2011. Edouard Nduwimana, the Burundi Ombudsman, says that his institution has found the (...)

10-26-2018 ■ The government has tried to take back street children into their families. What became of them after their return? Iwacu met these children who have failed to live in their families. Removing children from the street and sending them back home, a praiseworthy state project. G.N., aged 14, went (...)

10-05-2018 ■ From this October, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission –CVR will proceed with a decent burial of human remains dug up from mass graves scattered throughout the country. Clément Noah Ninziza, Vice President of CVR said it in a press conference he held this Thursday October 04. He says this (...)

09-21-2018 ■ Following widespread rumors on social media that the independent MP Fabien Banciryanino, elected in Bubanza constituency would be insecurity, the latter says he is safe and adds that there is no threat against him. “I think the authors of the rumors don’t know how to denounce human rights violations (...)

09-03-2018 ■ The new National Independent Electoral Commission was approved by the National Assembly on Wednesday August 29, 2018. MPs from Amizero y’Abarundi coalition were absent. Bujumbura government surprised everyone by sending a list of seven members of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) for approval. The secret was well kept. (...)

07-24-2018 ■ The bush fires have erupted with great density since the beginning of the current dry season compared with the last years, says Epimery Nibizi, the director of forests. He says more than 20 hectares of the Rusizi Nature Reserve have been set ablaze, while more than 250 hectares of (...)

01-31-2018 ■ Since they have been ordered to leave their plots of land which were later distributed to a certain “Joseph Gahushi”, about 5000 homes from Kizina hill of Gihanga Commune in Bubanza western province have come, this 30 January, to the office of Burundi Ombudsman to demand the answer to (...)

01-16-2018 ■ A man called Nyandwi Elias from Bubanza western province seriously beat two kids namely Egide Bigirimana and Tuyisenge aged 10 and 12 respectively after burying them up to their chests in his plot. He accused them of stealing corncobs from his field, said Chadrack, one of the local officials (...)