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Saido Berahino has scored his third hat-trick in English football with one each coming in the league, League Cup and FA Cup, the Burundi’s Intamba mu rugamba’s talisman in the same game scored his first brace in English league football for six years and 298 days, since doing so for West Bromwich Albion against Chelsea in May...

The tricycle mostly known as the (Tuk-Tuk) in Burundi, motorcycle and bicycle riders are desperate after the government’s move to extend their limit zones in Bujumbura deadline is closing in. Burundi’s Internal Affairs minister Gervais Ndirakobuca on Thursday extended the deadline for all the tricycle and motorcycle owners to be registered in Bujumbura in...

The East African Legislative Assembly members of the Committee on Regional Affairs and Conflict Resolution kicked off their assessment activity on Tuesday 8th March, 2022 in Bujumbura to assess the measures instituted by the partner states for the safety and security of movement of people and goods on Tanganyika. The committee included Burundi’s Hon....

Afghanistan has been listed top in countries most affected by terrorism last year. This is according to the Global Terrorism Index published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). In 2021, Afghanistan was the least peaceful country in the world as it was most affected by terrorism, local news reported. 1,426 deaths from...

Local authorities in Kirundo province have accused Rwanda’s navy for kidnapping two Burundian fishermen while on Lake Rweru on March 1st and 2nd around 21hrs local time, authorities say that the two fishermen who are Burundian nationals were kidnapped by the Rwandan navy forces and beaten and were released on the same night with injuries all over...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet should release her office’s long-awaited report on the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region without further delay, Amnesty International said today in an open letter joined by almost 200 other organizations. The letter was released as Bachelet gave a global update at...

A parliamentary committee that unearthed the “bad” terms of the Uganda-China’s Exim Bank Entebbe Airport loan agreement has ended its probe, noting that the deal is binding. Joel Ssenyonyi, chairperson of the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises, told The EastAfrican that it is impossible to pull out of the agreement given the dire...

 Burundi president Evariste Ndayihsimiye during a retreat with senior executives and state executives that took place last weekend, the president vowed for economic reforms that will see the country’s economic growth hit double digits by 2024. “In response to concerns submitted by senior executives of the state regarding the opacity of public procurement procedures...

Medics staged protests in Afghanistan, to demand their full pay. The doctors and other employees at a COVID-19 hospital over nonpayment of their salaries. Some held protests of 'don't steal from us’ as they marched through the streets, local media reports. The economy in Afghanistan has been collapsing, leading to mass...

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...