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Ranked second killing cancer in Burundi, October is a breast cancer awareness dedicated month, Gerarde Minani, a 48 years old mother of 5 children and a nurse at Muyinga Hospital spoke to Burundi Times’ Joella Nticiteretse of her battle with breast cancer. She is still under treatment, according to her the doctors recommended to stay under treatment...

Burundi government’s efforts to repatriate Burundians who fled the country comes as the country is expected to conduct general elections in less than a month. PHOTO| FILE. More than seven hundred Burundian refugees were earlier on Thursday repatriated to their home country after spending years in neighboring Tanzania. According to the Burundian authority 717...

Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza officially launching the Trade Fair in Bujumbura on 13/June/2019. PHOTO|FILE: Burundi State House. The second edition of the Burundi manufactures and trade fair was officially opened this Thursday in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura, the fair was launched by president Pierre Nkurunziza at Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika.

The East African Business Council (EABC) CEO John Bosco Kalisa called on the EAC member states to harmonize domestic tax regimes and Proposed measures for 2022/23 Budgets. Mr. Kalisa said the Treaty for the establishment of the East African Community obliges the Partner States to harmonize their tax policies with a view of removing...

The COMESA Secretariat has developed a draft COVID-19 Regional Food and Nutrition Security Response Plan to improve agricultural productivity, enhance access to competitive markets and trade in agri-food commodities in the region. Implementation of the Plan is expected to create synergies and complement existing initiatives in the region and Member States, targeting specific commodities...

Grenade attack in the city center in Bujumbura has left dozens injured

Majority of Burundian citizens have hailed the government’s move to ban citizens from going to worshipping places during the working hours in week days. The government through the minister of interior wrote a letter to local administrators to prohibit citizens to worship during the week days, citing that it impacts self-development and country’s...

These gains will be eroded especially if regional States do not stand together and collectively respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. PHOTO|FILE. The gains made by countries in the eastern and southern Africa, through free trade are under threat. In the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa - COMESA, with 21 countries, internal...

The East African Business Council (EABC) is calling for partner states to adopt a 35 percent tariff on imported goods outside the East African Community in what it says will help promote and develop regionally manufactured products. “The way to protect our infant industry is to raise the common external tariff for those products...

The Burundi police confirmed that atleast 3 people went missing in Rumonge province after a landslide that was caused by the heavy rain last Saturday evening October 21st.