Politics

Journalists in Pakistan have vowed protests, including a sit-in outside parliament on March 1 against a recently promulgated ordinance introducing controversial amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). The Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) announced a protest outside the Parliament House on March 1 against the PECA amendments, reported The Express...

The East African Community Secretary General Peter Mathuki marked 100 days since he took over the office as the 5th Secretary General from Burundi’s Liberat Mfumukeko. The EAC Secretary General was sworn in during the EAC Heads of State Summit that took place on February 27th, 2021 virtually. While addressing...

A High Level delegation from Burundi concluded their visit last week at the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) with a courtesy call to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) Speaker Martin Ngoga who later joined the Court for the closing session.  Burundi’s Minister of Justice Domine Banyankimbona and Attorney General of Burundi Sylvestre...

Last week the Secretary General of the ruling party CNDD-FDD Evariste Ndayishimiye slammed the Catholic leadership statement, accusing the church of trying to incite hatred among Burundians. PHOTO|FILE. While speaking to journalists in Rumonge province located in the South Western part of the country, Burundi’s government spokesman Prosper Ntahorwamiye said that the...

The South Sudan East African Community (EAC) Affairs minister and Chairperson of the EAC Council of Ministers Deng Alor Kuol last Thursday announced that an Extra-Ordinary Summit of the EAC Heads of State will be held virtually on April 15th 2024 to consider the appointment of the new EAC Secretary General. “On 18th March,...

Uganda’s former speaker of the National Parliament Rebecca Kadaga who is currently first deputy prime minister and minister of EAC Affairs has been sworn in as an ex officio in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) during a sitting in Arusha (Tanzania). “I have come back to my roots…when I first joined government in...

The court’s ruling comes after a council of minister’s meeting resorted for the country’s constitutional court to declare the position of president is vacant and announce who to take over. PHOTO|FILE. Burundi’s constitutional court ruled last Friday 12th June that the president elect Evariste Ndayishimye should take oath as soon as possible.

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...

With forced displacements continuing to increase, refugees and asylum seekers account for close to a quarter of global increases, which have risen by 13 million in number from 2010 to 2017. PHOTO| Burundi Times The growing number of international migrants has now reached 272 million, outpacing the growth rate of the world’s population, according to...

According to the home affairs ministry report more than thirty thousand Burundians were repatriated from neighboring countries and have been re-integrated in the community in the last six months. 33,963 people from 11,336 families returned to their motherland after fleeing the 2015 political crisis that led to hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the...