Gitega detracts Catholic Church statement
Last week the Secretary General of the ruling party CNDD-FDD Evariste Ndayishimiye slammed the Catholic leadership statement, accusing the church of trying to...
Burundi deports 138 foreign nationals for illegal stay
30 Congolese nationals being arrested arrested found in a building ​​Cibitoke suburb loctaed in Bujumbura on September 18/2019. PHOTO| FILE.Burundi police on Wednesday...
EACSOF petitions Regional Assembly over remittance delay
According to the regional civil society umbrella, as of September 13th 2019 it was only Uganda and Rwanda who had remitted partially of...
Number of migrants now growing faster than world population, new UN figures show
With forced displacements continuing to increase, refugees and asylum seekers account for close to a quarter of global increases, which have risen by...
Rights Watch call for UN to extend mandate of the Inquiry Commission on Burundi
Burundi’s permanent representative in the United Nations Albert Shingiro said that Burundians were aware that the 2015 coup plotters against elected institutions are...
President Nkurunziza pays tribute to Zimbabwe’s former leader
Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza through his social media account paid tribute to Zimbabwe’s former president. Mr Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital...
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe ex-president, dies aged 95
Mr Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924 in what was then Rhodesia - a British colony, run by its white minority. PHOTO:...
Burundi accuses UN agency for stalling repatriation exercise
In August 2017 representatives of Burundi and Tanzanian government alongside the UN refugee agency held a tripartite meeting to facilitate voluntary repatriation of...
President Nkurunziza marks 4 years at the helm after re-election
Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza at the state house in Bujumbura on February 19, 2019. PHOTO| BurundiTimesBurundi’s president Pierre Nkurunziza on Tuesday marked four...
Burundi: 721 returns home from Tanzania
The voluntary repatriation exercise of Burundian refugees is undertaken in pone continued phase with possibility of a gradual increase in the number of...


