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Criminalité

Tanzania : rise in crime around Nduta camp, Burundian refugees worried

SOS Médias Burundi Nduta, July 14, 2025 – A series of violent attacks in recent days around the Nduta refugee camp in northwest Tanzania is causing concern among Burundian refugees.

Criminalité

Cibitoke : two bodies in Burundian military uniforms found in the Rusizi River, following a similar discovery in May

SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, July 14, 2025 – Two corpses in an advanced state of decomposition, dressed in FDNB (Burundi National Defense Force) uniforms, were discovered on Monday morning on

Photo de la semaine

Photo of the week : Victoire Ingabire’s hearing postponed, opposition leader calls for Kenyan legal team

Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire appeared before a court on Tuesday July 8 in Kigali (capital of Rwanda) for a bail hearing. This was her first public appearance since her

Diplomacy

South Kivu : Kinshasa accuses the M23 of preparing an offensive on Uvira, local authorities have already retreated to Bujumbura

SOS Médias Burundi Bukavu, July 12, 2025 – The Congolese government is warning of a possible imminent offensive by the M23 and its ally, the AFC, in Uvira territory, in

Criminalité

Burunga: a village mediator killed with a machete in Gikuzi amid witchcraft and tensions related to bereavement

SOS Médias Burundi Nyanza, July 12, 2025 – A crime of unprecedented violence shook Gikuzi village, in Burunga province, on Friday, July 11. Donavine Nsavyimana, village mediator of the Gitabazi

Criminalité

A man found dead in Ngozi : gray areas surrounding a possible murder

SOS Médias Burundi Ngozi, July 11, 2025 – The Kigarama neighborhood, in Ngozi district in Butanyerera province (northern Burundi), woke up to shock on Thursday, July 10. The lifeless body

Refugees

Kakuma (Kenya) : a brutal categorization of refugees in a climate of widespread insecurity

SOS Médias Burundi Kakuma, July 11, 2025 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently carried out a social categorization of all refugees in the Kakuma camp in

Criminalité

Karusi : where are the 6,700 missing pupils?

SOS Médias Burundi Karusi, July 11, 2025 – Mass school dropouts, poverty, illegal migration… The former province of Karusi, now part of Gitega province (central Burundi), is facing an unprecedented

Refugees

Tanzania – Nyarugusu refugee camp : catholics protest against their priest following a call for voluntary repatriation

SOS Médias Burundi Nyarugusu, July 10, 2025 – At the Nyarugusu refugee camp, located in the Kigoma region of northwest Tanzania, near the border with Burundi, anger is brewing among

Governance

Burundi – territorial reform : Congolese refugees in Ruyigi soon to be free to travel without an exit ticket

SOS Médias Burundi Ruyigi, July 10, 2025 – Thanks to Burundi’s recent administrative reform, Congolese refugees from the Nyankanda and Bwagiriza camps, located in the east of the country, will