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The East African Communtiy has today launched an Online Tourism Capacity Development Programme that aims to

The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) this Wednesday 26 June 2024 adjourned its seating for 24hrs after the regional ministers failed to show up during a seating in Arusha, Tanzania. The East African Community Council of ministers which is chaired by South Sudan on Tuesday tabled $112 million as the budget for the East...

Women have started a trending hashtag in Pakistan ahead of the Women’s Day’s celebrations set for March 8. The hashtag ‘#SaveDaughtersOfSindh’ trending in the country has been trending the whole week, informed by discrimination and lack of recognition. In Pakistan’s Sindh, women have been on the receiving end, prompting the hashtag...

Burundi is expected to put in place a law on access to information in efforts to promote authentic and ethical communications and journalism in the country according to the Burundi’s ministry of Information and Communication. While addressing the media representatives on Friday April, 15th 2022 in Bujumbura, Burundi’s assistant minister of Information and communication...

The country’s Coronavirus cases stands at 11 in which four of them have been discharged from the hospital after testing negative for the virus. PHOTO| FILE. According to the press release from the Burundi’s ministry for health, five more people have tested positive for the COVID-19 after the tests that were conducted earlier this...

Women enjoy fewer than two-thirds the rights of men. A new World Bank Group report shows that global gender gap for women in the workplace is far wider than previously thought as women enjoy fewer than two-thirds the rights of men.  “No country provides equal opportunity for women not even the...

According to a study revealed by the association of repatriated women (AFRABU), of the 30% representation of women in the Burundi’s public institutions as per the constitution the new study revealed that women representation stood at 18 percent. The study was conducted in a course of five years with the primary objective of improving...

During The East African Communications Organization (EACO) meeting that was launched on Monday 26th June 2023 in Bujumbura (Burundi),

After the swearing in of the President of the republic Evariste Ndayishimiye the first move in forming a new government proposed two names to the parliament and the senate. PHOTO| FILE. The speaker of the parliament Pascal Nyabenda chaired this June’s 23, 2020 a sitting which the current Public Security minister Alain Guillaume...

As part of the response to the outbreak of Ebola, the Red Cross has been working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ensure safe burials to help stop the spread of the deadly disease. (August 2019). Photo| Martine Perret, UN Since the Ebola epidemic struck...