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Buhumuza : the fuel crisis blocks UNHCR partners and paralyzes services in refugee camps
SOS Médias Burundi Ruyigi, November 27, 2025 — Since Tuesday, November 25, UNHCR partners based in Ruyigi have been unable to visit the Bwagiriza, Nyankanda, and Kavumu refugee camps in
Goma : new fighting between the M23 and the Wazalendo militias forces thousands of civilians to flee
SOS Médias Burundi Goma, November 27, 2025 — Violent clashes erupted at dawn on Thursday between M23 rebels, affiliated with the Congo River Alliance (AFC), a politico-military movement hostile to
Burundi : the distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets disrupted by poor internet connection
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, November 28, 2025 – The national campaign to distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets, launched on November 26 and scheduled to end on December 1, is currently underway
Burundi – Burundian cotton, a sector losing momentum despite promises of revival
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, November 27, 2025 – Once Burundi’s second-largest export crop after coffee, cotton is now experiencing a profound crisis. Declining yields, unpredictable weather, a lack of support,
Buganda : residents denounce insufficient compensation during the construction of the bridge over the Rusizi River
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, November 27, 2025 – In Buganda, in the Bukinanyana district, Bujumbura province, bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, residents at the 6th avenue, along the National
Burundi : a commission visits several prisons and reviews the cases of political prisoners and coup plotters
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, November 27, 2025 – A delegation recently toured several prisons in Burundi. Among the prisoners met were the coup plotters incarcerated at Gitega Central Prison, in
Kayanza : five years in jail for fatally beating a man
SOS Médias Burundi Kayanza, November 27, 2025 – The Kayanza First Instance Court, in Butanyerera province in northern Burundi, sentenced a resident of Muhweza village to five years in prison,
Musema : two fires in one week at the girls’ dormitory, one pupil dead and extensive damage
SOS Médias Burundi Butanyerera, November 25, 2025 – A new fire broke out on Tuesday morning, November 25, in the girls’ dormitory of the Musema boarding school in Matongo district,
Prosecutor General’s Office : Rose Nkorerimana, the first woman to break the glass ceiling
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, November 25, 2025 – Burundi has just reached a historic milestone : for the first time since independence in 1962, a woman has been appointed to
Burundi : former Prime Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni still hospitalized in Gitega
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, November 25, 2025 — Former Burundian Prime Minister, General Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, remains hospitalized at the Gitega Regional Hospital in the political capital, where he has