Regional Youth Ambassadors on border community sensitization
Youth Ambassadors with border officials at Kobero/Kabanga border during the sesitisation programme on the movement of goods,services and people in the region. PHOTO|FILE.The East...
EALA: Forest cover declining, Lake Victoria in dire need for sustainable measures
Chair of the Committee on Accounts, Dr Ngwaru Maghembe, told an attentive House late yesterday that if remedial measures are not taken, Lake Victoria...
Almost six hundred Burundians repatriated from Tanzania
296 families were repatriated including 337 men and 253 women respectively from the provinces of Ruyigi (251) Makamba (163) Cankuzo (40) Rutana (48)...
EAC: South Sudan may face sanctions over remittance delay
Article 143 of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community indicates that a partner state which defaults in meeting its...
No Nkurunziza for 2020 elections despite calls to contest
Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza on 7th June 2018 announced that he will not contest in the next year’s general elections after serving his term that...
Gitega detracts Catholic Church statement
Last week the Secretary General of the ruling party CNDD-FDD Evariste Ndayishimiye slammed the Catholic leadership statement, accusing the church of trying to...
Burundi deports 138 foreign nationals for illegal stay
30 Congolese nationals being arrested arrested found in a building ​​Cibitoke suburb loctaed in Bujumbura on September 18/2019. PHOTO| FILE.Burundi police on Wednesday...
EACSOF petitions Regional Assembly over remittance delay
According to the regional civil society umbrella, as of September 13th 2019 it was only Uganda and Rwanda who had remitted partially of...
EAC declares Fridays as ‘Afrika Mashariki Fashion Day’
The SCTIFI urged EAC Partner States that produce cotton to set up national cotton lint buffer stock mechanisms to ensure all year-round availability...
Number of migrants now growing faster than world population, new UN figures show
With forced displacements continuing to increase, refugees and asylum seekers account for close to a quarter of global increases, which have risen by...


