02-29-2020 ■ “At least 461 people died, over 700 injured, nearly 11,000 houses destroyed, more than 65,000 ha of fields damaged and more than 14,000 people displaced in 2019 as the result of the heavy rains that fell in Burundi,” said André Ndayambaje, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Public Security, (...)

01-10-2018 ■ The heavy rain, that poured down in the afternoon of this 8 January in the hills of Cankuzo and Muterero of Cankuzo Commune in Cankuzo Province, destroyed houses and hectares of crops of rice, maize, sweet potatoes, beans and bananas. The residents of the affected areas say that torrential (...)