01-16-2020 ■ Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, Minister of Public Security and Disaster Management, says victims of floods in Bujumbura city are victims of uncontrolled constructions. “The best solution is to leave the localities. They know how they arrived there and they must do so to leave the places,” he says. It was (...)

01-14-2020 ■ The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has exhumed between 250 and 270 human remains that were buried in a mass grave located in Kamenge neighborhood in the north the Economic Capital Bujumbura within one month. “We also discovered human remains and other personal materials such as clothes, watches, identity cards (...)

01-14-2020 ■ Following the heavy rain that has fallen in different localities of the country causing heavy causalities especially in Bujumbura city over the past few days, a disaster management expert suggests solutions to overcome the situation. Léonidas Nibigira, a disaster management expert says the issue can be analyzed in two (...)

01-10-2020 ■ Martin Nivyabandi, Minister of Human Rights, Gender and Social Affairs has said victims of floods that hit Bujumbura city and Cibitoke province have received assistance. “Different humanitarians intervene since natural disasters that have caused causalities hit some localities,” said Minister Nivyabandi. It was during the presentation of his ministry’s (...)

12-24-2019 ■ The victims of the torrential rains that hit “Kuwinterekwa” and Nyabagere neighborhoods in the north of Bujumbura city in the night of December 21 are now sheltered at Kuwinterekwa” basic school. They fear the worst if nothing is done urgently. The situation is still deplorable. On 23 December, streets (...)

12-20-2019 ■ Freddy Mbinimpa, Mayor of Bujumbura, took, on 22 December, a series of measures including fixing the opening and closing hours of bars. Bars must open after 5 p.m. and close before 9 p.m., on weekdays while they open after 1 p.m. to close before 9 p.m. on weekends. At (...)

12-13-2019 ■ Remy Havyarimana, Secretary of the opposition party National Congress for Liberty-CNL in Kanyosha area was arrested in the evening of 11 December and Gaspard Nzobakenga, the propagandist of the same party in Kinzingwe-Bihara neighborhood got arrested in the morning of 12 December. The reasons for their arrest are still (...)

12-10-2019 ■ A delayed opening of voters registration offices and a low participation of voters are the irregularities observed this Monday 9 December, the first day of partial registration of voters for the upcoming 2020 elections. At 10am, a person was registering in the office located at Fine school, in Musama (...)

12-05-2019 ■ On the occasion of the World Day to fight against HIV that has been celebrated in Burundi on December 4, Aimé Ndayizeye, Director of the National Program for Fighting against HIV has said that HIV infection in Burundi is a generalized epidemic with an overall prevalence rate of 0.9% (...)

11-28-2019 ■ Residents of Gisyo neighborhood are worried about the collapse of the gutter that channels the runoff from Kanyosha urban area of Muha commune in the south of Bujumbura City. This gutter has become a deep ravine. Several houses have already been washed away by the ravine and a high (...)