04-04-2019 ■ Two people died in the morning of Wednesday 3April in Kibande area, Vumbi commune in Kirundo province. According to Jean Baptiste Kwizera, communal administrator, since Tuesday night, the population wanted to kill a resident of that locality accusing him of being a sorcerer. The police who intervened to save (...)

11-19-2018 ■ At least six cows have already died and more than ten contracted a contagious disease within one month. Cattle farmers in Makamba area of Rusaka commune in Mwaro province are worried. They ask for a vaccine to prevent the spread of this disease. A pregnant cow lies down in (...)

09-27-2018 ■ Félix Mpozeriniga, Minister of Public Service was invited at the National Assembly to respond to the oral questions of MPs this Wednesday, 26th September. MPs have said they deplore the delay observed in the replacement of some retired or dead civil servants which undermines the daily activities in the (...)

09-20-2018 ■ Daniel Ngendakumana was a member of the security committee and representative of the Imbonerakure (youth affiliated to the ruling party) in Rugazi zone. The young man aged 27 was killed with his wife, 24, this Tuesday 18 September 2018 in Kabarore commune, Kayanza province. Anicet Ndayizeye, Governor of Kayanza (...)

04-27-2018 ■ At least ten people were killed when the World Food Program truck from Tanzania missed its way after brake failure on the national road (RN6) at around 9:00 a.m. this Thursday, April 26. The accident occurred on Rwizingwe Hill in Gashikanwa Commune of Ngozi Northern Province. A witness of (...)

08-05-2016 ■ Carina Tertsakian, the head of Burundi program at Human Rights Watch reacts to the abduction of our colleague and estimates that the police should do their job. What is your analysis two weeks after the abduction of Jean Bigirimana? Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned about the disappearance of (...)

12-12-2015 ■ On the morning of this Saturday 12th December, people of Nyakabiga were in a total anguish. Dozens of dead bodies were found in that neighborhood after a longest Friday filled with a confrontation between police and gunmen. (...)

10-05-2015 ■ Two men shot dead by several gunmen in this morning near the Hotel LE BOUQUET. Both victims were forex traders and were coming out of the INTERBANK Burundi. (...)

09-11-2015 ■ Dead persons were discovered in Cibitoke Commune in this morning 8th September. The two who were found at 6th Avenue were recognized and taken. Under the heat of the sun, covered with sheets, the unknown dead body attracts the gaze of people. (...)

01-13-2015 ■ Fidel Odinga, the son of former Kenyan Prime Minister and main opposition party leaderRailaOdinga, was found dead at his home in Karen, Nairobi in the early hours of Sunday 4th January 2014. Top Kenyan detectives are treating the death as suspicious, and are currently investigating. Fidel Odinga had been (...)