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Photo of the week-Lake Tanganyika : more than a lake, a life threatened by inaction
Lake Tanganyika, one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes, benefits from exemplary cooperation between Burundi, the DRC, Tanzania, and Zambia through the Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA). However, in Burundi, inaction
Gikungu : a money transfer agent killed by a soldier
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 16, 2025 – A tragedy struck the Gikungu neighborhood, in the Gihosha zone, Ntahangwa district (north of the commercial capital Bujumbura), on Monday morning. Chantal
Giharo : illegal fines imposed on Congolese refugees in search of survival
SOS Médias Burundi Rutana, June 16, 2025 — Congolese refugees living at the Musenyi site, in Giharo district (Rutana province) in southeastern Burundi, are denouncing abusive practices by Burundian police.
Burundi : Ndayishimiye defends the CNDD-FDD victory and calls for a formal denunciation of electoral fraud
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, June 16, 2025 – As the results of the June 5 district and legislative elections are hotly contested, President Évariste Ndayishimiye is taking a stand. From
Burundi : ACG CIRIMOSO denounces the arrest of Tutsi survivors invited to a memorial meeting in Nairobi
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 16, 2025 – Three representatives of Burundian genocide survivor associations were arrested on Friday as they were preparing to travel to Kenya to attend a
Kavumu : a Rwandan refugee stabbed to death near the camp, three suspects arrested
SOS Médias Burundi Cankuzo, June 16, 2025 – A young Rwandan refugee was violently stabbed to death near the Kavumu camp in eastern Burundi. Three Congolese refugees were arrested. The
Cibitoke: two bodies found on the banks of the Rusizi River – mystery and concern on the Burundi-DRC border
SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, June 15, 2025 – The bodies of two men were discovered on Saturday morning, June 14, on the banks of the Rusizi River, in the district
Memory under surveillance : representatives of victims of Buta and Kibimba arrested in Bujumbura
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 14, 2025 – André Bizoza and Florence Rutamucero, activists in the Buta and Kibimba killings survivors’ associations, were arrested on Friday, June 13, 2025, at
Cibitoke : PM Ndirakobuca reassures — “Burundi will not return to a single-party system”
SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, June 14, 2025 —While the CNDD-FDD won all the seats in the legislative elections and most seats in district elections of June 5, Burundian Prime Minister