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In a commanding performance, Burundi secured a resounding 5-0 victory over Seychelles in their FIFA World Cup qualifying match on March 25, 2025, held at the Stade d'Honneur in Meknès, Morocco. Burundi wasted no time asserting their dominance, opening the scoring in the 22nd minute through Christophe Nduwarugira, who found the net with an...

Currently the number of positive cases related to the Coronavirus pandemic in Burundi stands at 83 of which 45 of them recovered and were discharged from the hospital and one fatality. PHOTO|FILE. Last Saturday Burundi Health ministry announced twenty new COVID-19 cases after 98 people were tested for the virus including contact tracing of...

An interim report by United Nations experts, released Wednesday, has outlined how the M23 rebel group, with alleged support from neighboring Rwanda, has seized towns in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and established parallel governance structures to control key mines and trade routes since April. The ongoing violence in eastern Congo persists despite...

Burudi's president Pierre Nkurunziza together with Evelyn Butoyi the minister for youth during the official launching of the bank in Gitega on April 15th. 2020. PHOTO| Burundi government. Burundi’s president Pierre Nkurunziza on Wednesday April 15th 2020 officially launched a Youth Investement Bank (BIJE) with the aim of fighting Youth unemployment in the country through providing loans...

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...

While address a session of the 14th African Union High Level Private Sector Forum at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for East African Community and Arid and Semi-arid Lands Rebecca Miano indicated that collaboration of regional value chains in Africa will open up domestic markets, achieve economies of scale and improve competitiveness...

The system allows the users to share information across borders in a transparent manner, and the truck drivers will need to upload the application on their phones.PHOTO| FILE. East African Community Partner States have adopted the Regional Electronic Cargo and Drivers Tracking System that will be hosted at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha,...

A team of the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) made a field visit in Burundi to explore opportunities to invest in mainly in the country’s private sector. While addressing the press in Bujumbura on Friday 9th February, Andrew Herscowitz the Chief Development officer of DFC said that his visit was a follow up of...

Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza through his social media account paid tribute to Zimbabwe’s former president. Mr Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April. He was ousted in a military coup in 2017 after 37 years in power. PHOTO| Burundi Times Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza through his social media account paid...

Wife of late former Burundi president Denise Bucumi Nkurunziza while addressing mourners in Gitega's Ingioma stadium on June 26th. 2020.PHOTO| Presidency Burundi’s former first lady and wife to the late president Pierre Nkurunziza during the last journey of his husband called on mourners to trust God as everything is planned by the almighty.