Politics

The Speaker of Burundi National Assembly Pascal Nyabenda while addressing the 13th meeting of EAC Speakers Forum in Kampala(Ugandan) December 10th, 2019. PHOTO|Burundi Times Burundi’s speaker of the National Assembly Pascal Nyabenda has on Tuesday December 10th 2019 hand over the chairmanship of the Bureau of the East African Community Speakers Forum after the end of his...

From Right: Uganda's EAC minister Kirunda Kivejinja, EAC Secretary General Limberat Mfumukeko and EALA Speaker Martin Ngoga at the EAC HQ in Arusha while celebrating 20 years of regional integration on November 30th, 2019. PHOTO| Burundi Times The East African Community (EAC) celebrated 20 years of regional integration since it was revived on...

Burundi says will retaliate on any attack from Rwanda on its soil and called on the international community to intervene in the deteriorating relation between the two countries. PHOTO| FILE. Burundi government has yet again expressed deep concerns over the recent armed attacks that happened in the north eastern Cibitoke province, Gitega accuses...

The opening hours of drinking places is from 17hrs to 21hrs local time during the week days and from 13hrs to 21hrs during weekends and public holidays. PHOTO|FILE. In a letter signed by Bujumbura’s mayor Freddy Mbonimpa dated November 21st 2019, the city’s mayor imposed a curfew in the country biggest town after a meeting that...

Burundi's president (Right) with the UN Secretary General's special envoy Michel Kafando in the state house in Bujumbura on June 2017. PHOTO| FILE. The erstwhile Burkinabe president Michel Kafando is set to leave Burundi at the end of November 2019 as his term as a Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General to Burundi comes...

Burundi and Rwandan police greeting each other in 2018 at the Ruhwa border post located in Cibitoke province. PHOTO|Burundi Times Burundi government has accused neighboring Rwanda of attacking a military position in Cibitoke province that borders Rwanda. While speaking to the State owned television, Major Emmanuel Gahongano from the defense ministry said that...

Kigali indicated that the deceased were identified as Job Ebindishanga aged 32 and Bosco Tuheirwe 35. PHOTO| FILE Two Ugandans believed to be business men were shot dead in the early morning of November 10th 2019 by the Rwandan police, police in Rwanda said that a group of suspected smugglers crossed inside Rwandan territory in Nyagatare...

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.

Armed men used a car and fired at the people who were in the bar and later fled the crime scene PHOTO| FILE. A group of armed men killed three people on Friday night in Burundi’s city Bujumbura while having some drinks in a bar, the bar is located in the city’s neighborhood a few meters...

From Left: Eduardo F. Mac-Gregor Poisot (President of the Inter-Amercan court, Sylvain Ore (president of the African Court) and Angelika Nussberger (vice president of the European Court) after signing the agreement in Uganda on 29.July.2019. PHOTO| Burundi Times The African Court, European and inter-American court of Human Rights signed a memorandum of understanding in efforts to...