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On Friday, 1 April, FIFA World Cup™ champions Cafu (Brazil) and Lothar Matthäus (Germany) will team up with six more assistants for the final draw to reveal the groups for the 2022 edition of football’s global showpiece. The full line-up of assistants will also include Adel Ahmed MalAllah (Qatar), Ali Daei (IR Iran), Bora...

Burundi’s political capital Gitega is set to host for the first time Miss Ngoma a beauty pageant before the end of this year, the beauty contest aims at presenting beauty and bright women in the province. “It aims at sensitizing women to Burundian culture, fostering and promoting the culture,” said Ménédore Ndayikengurukiye one of...

Burundi National Assembly (in Orange shirts) while locking horns with Kenyan counterpart during the 10th Inter-Parliamentary games in Uganda's capital Kampala on December 18th, 2019. PHOTO| BurundiTimes The Burundi National Assembly team thumped their counterparts from Kenya by 7-2 in men’s football at KCCA stadium, thanks to Innocent Niyukuri’s six goal madness that sealed Burundi’s last football...

Burundi Tennis Federation (FTB) announced last Sunday that the country will take part in this year’s Davis Cup slated for next month in Cameroon. At the Mundi Sport Complex in Yaoundé, four Burundian tennis players are expected to represent the country in its very first time in international event in men’s tennis from July...

EALA Volleyball team clashing with the Burundian team in Lugogo MTN Arena on December 16th, 2019 in Kampala (Uganda). PHOTO| Burundi Times The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) team thumped Burundi’s National Assembly on Monday 16th 2019 in the regional Inter-Parliamentary games that’s ongoing in Uganda’s capital Kampala. Burundi started the game...

The England striker had put Thomas Tuchel's team ahead from the spot, but they were left ruing two disastrous mistakes from their centre-back.


Burundi has become the 100th country to implement FIFA’s Football for Schools programme in a ceremony held in a celebratory atmosphere at the Urunani Stadium in Buganda,

Rukinzo Football Club and Musongati are scheduled for the show down this Saturday in the president's cup final in Ngozi after both teams coming out victorious last week in the semi-finals. "Rukinzo FC will take on Musongati FC this Saturday July 11, 2020 at Rukundo Stadium by 15:00 local time in Ngozi,” a statement...

Burundi’s play maker Gael Bigirimana completed his transfer to an Irish premiership football club Gletoran Football Club last Tuesday for undisclosed fee. The Burundians talisman was a free agent by the time the Irish based club Glentoran Football Club moved to recruit him. In a statement released last Tuesday, the Irish...

Burundi have qualified for their first ever Africa Cup of Nations thanks to a 1-1 draw with Gabon, who will not join them in Egypt later this year.