Politics

Burundi president Evariste Ndayishimiye announced last Friday that he has revoked 35 magistrates accused of obstruction of justice and corruption. While addressing the media after a meeting the High Council of Judiciary in Ngozi, Burundi’s president said that some magistrates were corrupt and obstructed justice in the country. “While analyzing 40...

Barely one month after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) joined the East African Community, the region is establishing a force to fight the negative forces in the DRC under the leadership of Kinshasa. During the second region’s Heads of State meeting that took place this Thursday in Nairobi on the invitation of Kenya’s...

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni (Right) shaking hands with the African Court’s President Sylvain Ore during the fourth Judicial Dialogue in Kampala. PHOTO| Burundi Times While addressing the participants at the fourth African Judicial Dialogue, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni defended death sentence while calling for the African Union to fight oppression and insecurity in the continent.

Burundi government is set to reduce the number of communes and provinces in the country according to the country’s minister for internal affairs Gervais Ndirakobuca. While addressing the local leaders and press, Mr. Ndirakobuca said that there is a plan to reduce the number of provinces for the better and constructive management of the...

Farming, nutrition and environment conservation was one of the main key issues discussed during this year’s Women Leadership Forum that took place in Bujumbura under the auspices of the Burundi First Lady Angeline Ndayishimiye. The three day meeting brought together female leaders in Burundi and around Africa under the theme “Health nutrition of women,...

A federal jury convicted a New Jersey man for his involvement in a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain U.S. visas for Chinese government employees. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Zhongsan Liu, 59, of Fort Lee, participated in a scheme to fraudulently procure J-1 research scholar visas for employees of the government...

According to Burundian police 663 Burundian (226 households) were repatriated from neighboring Tanzania under the tripartite agreement between UNHCR, Burundi and Tanzania. PHOTO| FILE More than six hundreds Burundian refugees were on Wednesday April 29 repatriated to the country after fleeing the politcal crisis that erupted in 2015 when the incumbent president Pierre Nkurunziza vied...

Burundi government says the seven ‘armed criminals’ who were arrested earlier this month were officially handed over to the Rwandan authorities, the seven armed men are said to have been captured by the Burundian army on 8th April while entering Burundian territory through Nyugwe forest. “Yesterday seven criminals from Rwanda were handed over to Rwandan authorities in the presence of...

Burundi’s ruling party CNDD-FDD declined to comment on the allegation but had for several times rubbished the accusations saying that they were unfounded and had no grounds. PHOTO| BurundiTimes Burundi’s Council for Liberation (CNL) has yet again accused the ruling party youth wing (Imbonerakure) of harassing and intimidating the party members. The allegations came...

Amid the growing economic woes and international isolation forcing over-reliance on China, Pakistani officials are ready to scrap the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), if the US could offer a similar deal, local media said. Pakistani authorities who remain predisposed to the West have even offered to scrap or sideline the CPEC if Washington could...