07-25-2018 ■ Burundi will host the first edition of the sports tournament of the EAC games from 16 to 30 August 2018. The Minister of Culture and Sports says the tournament intends to reinforce peace and unity within the community. Pélate Niyonkuru, Minister of Culture and Sports, says sport is one (...)

07-25-2018 ■ Burundians will celebrate on 28 July the national solidarity day whose aim will be collecting aid to assist vulnerable people and victims of disasters. “The long-awaited national solidarity day will be celebrated on July 28 in all the communes of the country,” said Martin Nivyabandi, Minister of Human Rights, (...)

07-24-2018 ■ Graders in the final year of the post-fundamental school in Burundi say they are disturbed by the fact that the date for the state exam which gives the successful students access to higher education, has not so far been set. “We don’t know when we will do the state (...)

07-24-2018 ■ The team in charge of organizing Pamoja Festival says Gospel music is one of the ways which can be used to convey a positive message. Hugues Safari, Pamoja Festival communication assistant, says music plays a significant role in Burundians’ lives. “Music is part of life. It is also one (...)

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 (...)

07-21-2018 ■ An inhabitant of Buheka area, Kazirabageni zone, Nyanza Lake commune, Makamba province in the south of the country was arrested by the police on 16 July for having disinterred human remains. He discovered a mass grave while working in his field. Human rights activists demand that he be released. (...)

07-20-2018 ■ Local authorities in Kirundo province, in the north of Burundi report that about 3,000 Burundians have been expelled from Rwanda since June 2018, because they refused to live in the refugee camps. They complain that they are separated from their families, explaining that men married to Rwandan women are (...)

07-19-2018 ■ While the world celebrates Mandela Day each July 18, Burundian politicians say they will always remember Nelson Mandela as a hero because of his contribution to end the civil war through the Arusha Peace Agreement. Some of them denounce, however, the will of the government to violate it. Pancrace (...)

07-18-2018 ■ The International Committee of the Red Cross-ICRC says prisoners in Burundi suffer social discrimination. In honor of Mandela Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross-ICRC in partnership with the Ministry of Justice has visited Light University students to sensitize them to the rights and dignity of detainees. Nazim (...)

07-18-2018 ■ The Cabinet analyzed on 11 July a draft decree on the allocation of land to the ruling party in the town of Gitega Province. “CNDD-FDD party plans to erect a large building that will comprise a worship center, conference room and a place where other major events will take (...)