01-04-2018 ■ Since 2015, house workers were asked to buy a professional card. Three years after the sensitization, they still complain about the obligation to have it. Each card is sold at BIF 7300 and extra money can be paid if the house worker does not have two passport pictures as (...)

12-26-2017 ■ Traders operating in six markets of the capital Bujumbura complain that it is taking too long to return to the newly rehabilitated markets. They say that the temporary ones are not appropriate enough to work in especially during the rainy season. Since January 2016, Bujumbura city council asked different (...)

12-14-2017 ■ A delegation of seven staff members of COMESA secretariat landed at Bujumbura International Airport this Thursday 14 December to prepare the COMESA summit which will be held in Burundi, in the first quarter of 2018. A team of Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) staff members have (...)

12-04-2017 ■ The 4th round of talks is supposed to be the last. According to the facilitation office, an agreement signed in the presence of the Heads of State of the EAC would conclude it. An ambitious project. The facilitation office has given a period of two weeks to settle definitively (...)

11-23-2017 ■ Burundi, like many other countries, has sufficient material and human resources to develop but remains among poor countries. Hicham El Moussaoui appeals to youth to face the reality so as to find strategies to move forward. In his presentation in the regional workshop organised by the student for liberty (...)

11-17-2017 ■ Different researches show that antibiotics are building up resistance at a high level. Health professionals ask both the government and population to get involved. From 20 to 50 % antibiotics are used inappropriately. According to a research done by health professionals from January to September 2017 in Bujumbura area, (...)

11-15-2017 ■ Passengers from Burundi to Kampala are no longer obliged to pass through Tanzania. Since two months, travel agencies can also go through Kigali. It is a huge relief for traders and passengers. Shopkeepers sourcing from Uganda welcome the situation. “Kigali way is too short and the transportation conditions are (...)

11-15-2017 ■ More than 356 women and girls are victims of human trafficking since January 2017. Cases of people who leave families are observed in Bujumbura popular neighbourhoods. Some women decide to abandon their families to go to the Gulf Countries. The most popular neighbourhoods namely Kinama and Kamenge are the (...)

11-10-2017 ■ In recent days, residents of Bujumbura say they meet hippos in some neighborhoods near Lake Tanganyika.Environmentalists say these hippos come out of their natural habitat to seek food because they are threatened with hunger. “We are afraid of these hippopotamuses roaming in our neighborhoods. Whenever we see them, we (...)

10-30-2017 ■ The Minister of Justice, Aimée Laurentine Kanyana, was this 30 October in the National Assembly to shed light on the penal code revision. She says some changes in the current penal code have to be made as it dates from 2009 in order to strengthen the repression of certain (...)