East Africa’s budgets must stop working against its own market
The region is growing, but fiscal fragmentation is keeping businesses from trading freely across borders. FY2026/27 budgets must make the EAC a predictable single...
Four Children Dead: The Case That Shook Communities and Exposed a Dangerous Silence
For many families, safety is something they assume—until it is suddenly taken away.On April 2, 2026, a man entered the Ggaba Early Childhood Development...
Journalism is not dying; our practice is
I write this opinion piece with a heavy heart. Two burdens weigh on me: a tragic incident that took lives, shattered families, and caused...
Khadja Nin’s Choice: A Personal remark? or a political gift to Rwanda?
Khadja Nin has long been known as Burundi’s most recognizable musical export, a voice that carried Kirundi melodies into global arenas. But when she...
Dawn of the rainbow: Will African clerics parade their true colours?Exposed. Scandalised. Nauseating. A roller-coaster of emotions was evident as the hypocrisy of persons...
Digital innovations promise profits to Burundi’s traders
From Kirundo to Bujumbura and Mabayi to Mabanda, the women traders of Burundi are rising up with new hope for present and future generations,...
Is journalism in Burundi dying?
With hundreds of media houses registered by the country’s media regulatory body CNC, the question of professionalism, objectivity, impartiality and basics of doing the...
What you need to know about grenade attacks in Burundi
Many have been left in crinkum-crankum as to why the random grenade attacks in Burundi particularly in Bujumbura city continue to happen, here are...
Will “Visit Burundi” resuscitate the dying sector?
Burundi is a country that has breathtaking 126 touristic sites which are yet to be tapped neither by the government nor by the private...
Q and A with Bernadette Niyoyitungira
Burundi Time’s Joella Niciteretse spoke with Bernadette Niyoyitungira a student at Summit University a victim of 1993 civil war, shared her passion and experience...


