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Rumonge : four traders arrested for speculation

Ezechiel Mpawenimana, Mediatrice Irankunda, Bella Irakoze and Antoine Ntunzwenimana, all bar owners in the town center of the Magara zone, in Bugarama district in the Rumonge province (southwest Burundi), were

Governance

Gitega: the second level of the Supreme Court upheld the life prison sentence against former Burundian Prime Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni

The President of the Supreme Court Emmanuel Gateretse notified him of the decision this Thursday at the Gitega central prison where Alain Guillaume Bunyoni is detained since July 2023. INFO

Society

Burundi: drug addiction does not spare women

Drug addicts in Burundi joined the rest of the world to celebrate the day dedicated to the fight against drug abuse and trafficking. In Burundi, women are not spared. The

Security

Nyanza-Lac : a fire devastates health district offices

All office equipment and archives could not be saved following a fire that occurred during the night from Monday to Tuesday in the offices of the health district of the

DRC En

Goma : the South African army announces the death of its two soldiers in Sake

The South African army confirmed on Wednesday the death of two soldiers deployed in the North Kivu province in eastern Congo as part of the SADC (Southern African Development Community)

Criminalité

Rumonge : a body floating on Lake Tanganyika discovered

The body of Emmanuel Nduwimana (46 years old) was found very close to the commercial port of Rumonge on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. His corpse was floating on the waters

Médias

Bujumbura : the head office of the Iwacu press group targeted by stone throwing

Unidentified people threw stones into the plot hosting the office of the Iwacu press group located in the commercial city Bujumbura on Monday night. Those responsible for this independent medium

Security

Rumonge : a body floating on Lake Tanganyika discovered

The body of Emmanuel Nduwimana (46 years old) was found very close to the commercial port of Rumonge on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. His corpse was floating on the waters

Security

Rutana: heavy sentences for soldiers who refused to fight alongside the FARDC

Sentences ranging from 22 to 30 years in prison and fines of 500 US dollars were handed down against 272 soldiers who refused to fight against the M23 alongside the

Society

Cibitoke: 20 fuel traffickers drowned in Rusizi in two months

At least five people died, drowned in the Rusizi River (separating Burundi and the DRC) and several quantities of gasoline leaked in one week, bringing to 20 the number of