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According to the health ministry other tests were conducted on patients who had tested positive for the virus last month returned as three of them tested negative and recovered from the virus. PHOTO| FILE Burundi’s ministry of health announced four new Coronavirus cases in the country, in a statement released this Saturday May 2nd 2020, the...

One of the landslides near the RN3 road to Rumonge province from Bujumbura in April 2015. Photo: Burundi presidency At least 26 people have been confirmed dead and other seven were injured after a landslide in Burundi’s Cibitoke province located in the north-western part of the country.

This comes as casting votes is set to be held on May 20, 2020 making it mathematically impossible for the mission to observe the elections. PHOTO| FILE Burundi government has imposed a fourteen day mandatory quarantine for the East African Community (EAC) Electoral Observers ahead of May 20th presidential elections. In...

The ceasefire agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo forces and M23 rebel group was broken as clashes have

Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni while addressing the nation on April 14th. 2020. PHOTO| State House. Uganda’s president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has on Tuesday April 15th extended the Country’s lockdown extended to another three weeks as a measure to contain and prevent the spread of the Coronavirus in the country. President Museveni’s move comes as the...

Chair of the Committee on Accounts, Dr Ngwaru Maghembe, told an attentive House late yesterday that if remedial measures are not taken, Lake Victoria risks being extinct in the next 123 Years. PHOTO| EALA. A report of the Assembly has lamented over the declining forest cover in the EAC region, while calling for remedial...

The Burundi’s Intamba mu Rugamba met in Bujumbura for training match readying for the clash against Namibia and Cameroon for the African Cup of Nations 2023. Burundi is expected to play its Group C matches in Tanzania and Johannesburg, the Intamba mu Rugamba are expected to play against Namibia’s brave warriors on June 4th...

The Uganda Vice President Jessica Alupo on Tuesday, 9th May, 2023 officially opened the 10th East African Petroleum Conference and Exhibition 2023, themed East Africa as a hub for Investment in Exploration and Exploitation of Petroleum Resources for Sustainable Energy and Socioeconomic Development. The Ugandan Vice President who represented the President of Uganda Yoweri...

For the first time the country recorded cases of Coronavirus outside Bujumbura province in the countryside of Kayanza and Gitega.PHOTO|FILE. Burundi’s public health ministry this Saturday July 3rd announced 24 new Coronavirus cases after 256 people were tested from the provinces of Kayanza, Gitega and Bujumbura. According to the Burundian government...

Burundi has this Monday October 18th wrote a letter to the East African Community Secretary General Peter Mathuki informing Gitega’s decision to suspend attendance of the Interviewing Panels for the remaining shortlisted candidates for the various advertised positions at the EAC Organs and Institutions, that was scheduled to take place this Monday 18th October 2021, to 2nd...