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Bujumbura : street vendors – “We no longer survive, we’re enduring”
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 29, 2025 – Faced with soaring prices, women street vendors in Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi, are struggling to survive. Their small businesses, the
Education in peril : Burundian teachers flee a system on its end
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 29, 2025 – Between low salaries, precarious living conditions, and a lack of prospects, more and more primary and secondary school teachers are leaving the
Ruyigi (Buhumuza) : grave desecrators heavily sentenced by the courts
SOS Médias Burundi, Ruyigi, July 29, 2025 In the Ruyigi region, in Buhumuza province (eastern Burundi), the courts have struck hard against grave desecrators. On Monday evening, the Ruyigi First
Burundi : fuel shortages and record fines paralyze the entire transportation network
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 29, 2025 – A complete paralysis of public transportation has gripped the small east African nation. Since Sunday and throughout Monday, parking lots in Bujumbura,
Photo of the week : roads that kill, a system that abandons
The Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Martin Niteretse, issued an alert earlier this week in Gitega, the political capital of Burundi, regarding the scale of road accidents in
Bujumbura : grey areas surrounding the case of Ruboneka, arrested and rushed to Kinshasa
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 29, 2025 – Arrested on Sunday, July 27 in Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi, by Burundian security services, Laurent Ruboneka Musabwa, an employee of
Bugendana and Teza: 29 years later, survivors of the massacres described as genocide demand truth and justice
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 28, 2025 – Twenty-nine years after the Bugendana and Teza massacres, in which 648 displaced persons and 90 tea factory workers were murdered, survivors and
Bujumbura : secret services arrest a DRC embassy employee, a prominent Banyamulenge figure
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 28, 2025 – The arrest of Laurent Ruboneka Musabwa at dawn on Sunday by agents of the National Intelligence Service (SNR), police, and military personnel
Bujumbura : Faustin Ndikumana calls for the independence of the Burundi Central Bank
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 27, 2025 – The president of the organization Speech and Actions for the Revival of Conscience and Mentality Change (PARCEM), Faustin Ndikumana, launched an urgent
Rumonge : a wave of arrests of traders accused of speculating on Brarudi products
SOS Médias Burundi Rumonge, July 27, 2025 – Law enforcement continues its hunt for speculators in products from the Burundi Brewery Factory (Brarudi) in Burunga province, in the south of