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Burundi’s Immigration Authority has announced an online website to apply for different travel documents including passports. “All the documents that the Immigration authority issues including Passports, Laissez-Passer, Visas will now be requested online. No need to queue at the Immigration Authority’s office,” a statement read from Burundi’s ministry of Internal Affairs.

The East African Community (EAC) has officially launched a new three-year project aimed at boosting agricultural productivity and sustainability across the region. The Sustainable Regional Agricultural Extension (ENSURE) Project, with a total budget of USD 12.5 million, is funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and is designed to improve agricultural extension services in the region.

Lower and higher institutions of learning are opening up for educational activities in the COMESA region as the bloc begins to ease COVID-19 restrictions. So far, schools in Egypt, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been opening from the month of August, September and some are set October. Governments in the...

Food safety experts across Africa are calling for more consistent and harmonized standards for food additives, citing discrepancies that are hindering both public health and trade. While some countries have adopted international guidelines, a lack of uniform interpretation of Codex standards is creating barriers to the free flow of goods and food safety progress across the continent.

The East African Community Electoral Observer Mission this Friday 16th April submitted its report on the general elections in Uganda that were conducted in January this year. Speaking in Bujumbura (Burundi) the head of the EAC observer mission and former Burundi president Domitien Ndayizeye praised the Ugandan government on how the elections were conducted.

The Burundi senate in Gitega on Monday officially flagged off the ethnic quota evaluation exercise on whether to abolish or maintain the quota system as scripted in the Burundi constitution.

Burundi’s political party Sahwanya-Frodebu is calling for justice after 28 years since the former party leader and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira died in a plane crash in Rwanda after attending a regional summit in Dar es Salaam.  He had just completed two months in the office after being appointed by the National Assembly on January...

Burundi president Evariste Ndayishimiye has relieved the Director General of Otraco (Public Transport Office) Albert Maniratunga for failure to deliver the decentralization of issuing Technical Control licenses of vehicles in the provinces of Gitega, Ngozi and Bururi provinces. “So all of those who need the license have to travel to Bujumbura.. do you how...

Watch the message from the United States president Joe Biden to the African Union Summit participants. As he indicated that his administration is committed to working with the African Union to advance the shared vision of a better future. "We must all work together to advance our shared vision of a better future. A...

The Ministry of Finance, Budget and Economic Development has launched the second phase of its electronic invoicing project, aimed at strengthening tax revenue management through digitalization. Finance Minister Nestor Ntahontuye announced the initiative on March 18 at the headquarters of the Burundi Revenue Authority (OBR). As part of the expansion, the government has acquired...