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Criminalité

Bujumbura : a woman found dead on the shores of Lake Tanganyika

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, November 3, 2025 — The lifeless body of 48-year-old Appolonie Ndayisaba, from Gihinga village, Nyabihanga district, Gitega Province, was found on Sunday on the shores of

Refugees

Kavumu : the halt in briquette distribution exposes refugees to grave dangers

SOS Médias Burundi Kavumu, November 3, 2025 – The situation is becoming critical at the Kavumu refugee camp, located in the district of Cankuzo, in Buhumuza province, eastern Burundi. This

Health

Cholera outbreak in Bujumbura : Kamenge Secondary Technical School closes as a precaution

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, November 3, 2025 — Kamenge Secondary Technical School, in the urban district of Ntahangwa in Bujumbura, Burundi’s commercial capital, suspended classes on Monday morning after several

Éducation

Photo of the week-Five Green Hills International College pupils jailed in Gitega Central Prison

Five pupils from Green Hills International College, located in downtown Gitega, the political capital of Burundi, have been jailed since Thursday, October 30, in Gitega Central Prison. This sudden and

Diplomacy

DRC : General Masunzu arrested, a symptom of an army in crisis

SOS Médias Burundi Bukavu, November 4, 2025 – Lieutenant General Pacifique Masunzu, commander of the 3rd Defense Zone of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), was

Health

Nationwide shortage of gauze and gauze rolls : Burundian hospitals in difficulty

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, November 4, 2025 – Since the second week of October, the small east African nation has been facing a nationwide shortage of gauze rolls and medical

Criminalité

Two men, including a local representative, reported missing after their arrest by the SNR in Mugina

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, November 1, 2025 — In Gasebeyi, Buhoro zone, Mugina district, in Bujumbura province, western Burundi, two men, including a local representative, were arrested on Thursday, October

Justice En

Five Green Hills International College pupils jailed in Gitega Central Prison

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, November 1, 2025 — Five pupils from Green Hills International College, located in downtown Gitega, the political capital of Burundi, have been jailed since Thursday, October

Governance

Bubanza: district administrator Jérémie Simbagoye suspended for violation of the district law

SOS Médias Burundi Bubanza, November 1, 2025 — The Minister of the Interior, Community Development, and Public Security has suspended Jérémie Simbagoye, administrator of the Bubanza district in Bujumbura province,

Diplomacy

South Kivu : deadly clashes between Wazalendo factions, eastern Congo on the brink of implosion

SOS Médias Burundi Bukavu, October 30, 2025 – The Fizi territory in South Kivu province, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has been rocked for a week by violent clashes