12-28-2018 ■ The legal representative of Buterere Technical School was arrested this December 25, 2018. The ministry of education accuses him of disappearing with the students’ files. Edouard Juma, spokesman for the ministry of education says Buterere Technical School legal representative disappeared during the investigation into the cheating case that occurred (...)

12-21-2018 ■ A mother and her three children were killed in grenade explosion. The woman and two of her children died on the spot while the other kid died at the hospital. It was around 7:00 p.m. on 19 December when two grenades were thrown by unknown people inside the household (...)

12-08-2018 ■ A sentence of life imprisonment and a fine of BIF 50 million to be given to the family of the killed wife is the punishment given to Prime Nduwimana, a police officer who has killed his wife on Wednesday 5 December 2018. This was decided in an urgent penal (...)

11-08-2018 ■ In the warm sun, sand, stones and gravel extractors sit along the Ntahangwa River, in north of the capital Bujumbura. They seem to be desperate. They have not been working for a month. “Our families live in extremely difficult conditions since the government suspended the activities of extracting construction (...)

10-09-2018 ■ Kayanza High School has received fewer students attending boarding school than expected this school year. The increase in school fees has forced some parents to take their children to day-schools especially in communal high schools. “My parents are not able to pay school fees recently set for boarding schools (...)

09-28-2018 ■ The ministry of human rights and solidarity said this September 27, 2018 that more than 1800 street children have been restored to their families in the campaign to fight against street children phenomenon. Félix Ngendabanyikwa, permanent secretary at the ministry of Human Rights and solidarity, says the campaign to (...)

09-05-2018 ■ Following the decision of the ministry of education to close the fourth cycle (from 7th to 9th graders) of the fundamental school with poor performance a week before the new school year, parents say their children will not have way to study. Edouard Ndikumasabo, chairman of the national association (...)

09-04-2018 ■ The ministry of education has closed the fourth cycle (from 7th to 9th graders) of Fundamental teachings of at least thirty private schools operating in Burundi, among them “Lycée de l’avenir”, “Lycée technique Bukirasazi”, “Sunshine College”, “Lycée Technique de la Foi”, “Lycée de la Comibu de Nyabakiba”, “Lycée Jabe” (...)

09-04-2018 ■ From 2003 to date, Seruka Center has recorded around 19950 cases of sexual and gender based violence- SGBV. 610 of them were recorded during the last eight months in 2018. Goreth Mukiramana, legal representative of Seruka center says the latter records about 120 cases of SGBV per month. “Over (...)

06-05-2018 ■ While the world celebrates the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression every June 4th, street children in Burundi continue to suffer different forms of aggression after the government’s measure to remove them from streets. Ferdinand Simbaruhije, Secretary General of the national federation of associations defending children’s rights- (...)