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Economy

Fuel crisis: parents and children no longer know where to turn as the school year nears

In Bujumbura, the Burundi’s financial capital, where the United Nations agencies and the central administration are concentrated, the main criterion for finding a school where to enroll your child is

Society

Burundi: Farmers urged to adapt their farming activities to the climate

The Geographical Institute of Burundi (IGEBU) announced last Wednesday the start of the growing season A, “Agatasi”. The Institute says the season tends to be rainier than the previous year

Refugees

Nakivale (Uganda): appearance of measles cases

Declaration of the highly contagious respiratory viral disease, measles, in the Nakivale camp. Among the emergency measures decided, there is the swift vaccination of all children aged between 9 and

Human Rights

Cibitoke: more than 150 detainees in a custody with a capacity of 40

With a capacity of 40 detainees, the custody of the provincial police station of Cibitoke (north-west Burundi) housed, until Friday, September 6, 159 people, including a dozen minors. The prison

Refugees

Uvira (DRC): a sex worker of Burundian origin killed

Esther. N was killed on September 1 in a hotel room in Uvira. It is in the province of South Kivu in the east of the DRC. The author of

Health

Ngozi: Musasa refugee camp gets a new maternity building

The Congolese refugee camp of Musasa in the province of Ngozi in northern Burundi has a new maternity building. Congolese refugees, like other inhabitants of the Musasa area, say they

Justice En

Kayogoro: a woman in detention for infanticide

Gloriose Ntirampeba, 35, was arrested this Tuesday, September 3 at her home on Mugeni hill in the commune of Kayogoro in Makamba province in southern Burundi. According to a police

Health

Kinshasa: DRC receives first doses of Mpox vaccines

The Congolese heath minister on Thursday received a first batch of nearly 100,000 doses of Mpox vaccines. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this is a donation from European

Refugees

Nduta (Tanzania) : Resumption of the ransacking of refugees’ fields

The Nduta camp administration has ordered the destruction of the refugees’ vegetable and cereal fields. For the administration, this type of agricultural and commercial activity discourages the voluntary repatriation movement.

Health

Makamba : refusal to harmonize salaries by the provincial health authority, employees denounce embezzlement of funds

For more than two years, health officials in Makamba province (southern Burundi) have been reluctant to harmonize salaries in the health sector, while the Ministry of Health ordered this harmonization