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Bubanza: Imbonerakure sow terror as elections approach
SOS Médias Burundi Bubanza, May 3, 2025 – As legislative and municipal elections scheduled for June near, in the small East African nation, a climate of widespread fear is taking
Bukavu : clashes between the Wazalendo and the FARDC, panicking the population
SOS Médias Burundi Bukavu, May 2, 2025 – Fighting broke out on Thursday between the Congolese army and Wazalendo militias in the heights of Uvira, South Kivu. The exchange of
Labor Day : In Burundi, promises pile up, conditions stagnate
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, May 1, 2025 – While authorities highlight the progress made in the public sector, unions denounce the persistently precarious working conditions in Burundi. On the occasion
Bubanza : a police officer kills two people and commits suicide in a crime of passion, police under high tension
SOS Médias Burundi Bubanza, May 1, 2025 – The night of April 29, 2025, will remain etched in the memory of the residents of Bubanza, marked by a tragic incident
Bujumbura : CNC president surprised by Bonesha FM’s silence following the assault on one of Its journalists
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, April 30, 2025 – A few days before the World Press Freedom Day, the President of the National Communication Council (CNC), Espérance Ndayizeye, publicly expressed her
Bujumbura : journalist Kenny Claude Nduwimana remains prison despite the expiry of appeal deadline
Bujumbura, April 30, 2025 – In violation of the Burundian Code of Criminal Procedure, journalist Kenny Claude Nduwimana remains detained despite the public prosecutor’s appeal being filed out of time.
Malawi : three refugee women, including a Burundian woman, accuse a police officer of sexual harassment and rape
SOS Médias Burundi Dzaleka, April 30, 2025 – Three refugee women, including a Burundian woman, have filed a complaint of sexual harassment and rape against a police officer assigned to
Musenyi : cross-border solidarity – Angéline Ndayishimiye and Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi meet with Congolese refugees
SOS Médias Burundi Musenyi, April 30, 2025 – First Ladies of Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo made a joint visit to the Congolese refugee site of Musenyi, in
DRC : evacuation of unarmed Congolese soldiers and police officers from Goma to Kinshasa, with support from the ICRC and MONUSCO
SOS Médias Burundi Goma, April 30, 2025 – Several hundred unarmed members of Congolese security forces, protected since January by MONUSCO in Goma, have begun to be transferred to Kinshasa
Skyrocketing rents in Burundi’s major cities : a silent crisis strangling households
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, April 29, 2025 – Since last year, house rents in Burundi’s major cities, including Bujumbura, Gitega, and Ngozi, have seen a dramatic increase, sometimes doubling in