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Burundi: scandal at the CNIDH, a senior official implicated in a disappearance case
SOS Media Burundi Bujumbura, June 16, 2026 – The National Independent Human Rights Commission (CNIDH) is at the center of a new controversy. Officials within the institution are calling for
Buhumuza: promises of employment facing a reality of poverty and social exclusion
SOS Médias Burundi Buhumuza, June 16, 2026 – Despite official pronouncements touting entrepreneurship, innovation, and self-employment as solutions to unemployment, many rural youth, female heads of households, and members of
Buhumuza: promises of employment facing a reality of poverty and social exclusion
SOS Médias Burundi Buhumuza, June 16, 2026 – Despite official pronouncements touting entrepreneurship, innovation, and self-employment as solutions to unemployment, many rural youth, female heads of households, and members of
Rwanda : the biometric card that could change refugees’ lives
SOS Médias Burundi Mahama, Rwanda, June 16, 2026 – Rwanda is continuing its digital transformation with the gradual rollout of a new biometric identity card for all its citizens and
Gitega : a teacher lured by a fake phone call falls into a deadly grenade trap
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, June 15, 2026 — A teacher at Notre-Dame d’Espérance School, a school under contract with the Emmanuel Community of the Good Shepherd Parish of Shatanya, succumbed
Bujumbura : the body of a missing young man found in a morgue, his family demands answers
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 15, 2026—The death of Jean Joël Nikoyagize, a young resident of the Mutanga Nord neighborhood in northern Bujumbura, has raised many questions among his family
Musenyi : thousands of Congolese refugees demonstrate to demand the repatriation to the DRC
SOS Médias Burundi Musenyi, June 15, 2026 — Thousands of Congolese refugees living at the Musenyi camp in Burunga province, southern Burundi, held a peaceful demonstration on Monday, June 15,
Photo of the week-Kirundo : the State accused of abandoning thousands of citizens to a protracted water crisis with serious health consequences
Residents of Kiri, Kiyonza, and Ruhehe face a chronic drinking water shortage A severe drinking water shortage has been affecting residents of the Kiri, Kiyonza, and Ruhehe areas in Kirundo
Burundi : after the failure of the basic school, the government forced to tethink its plan
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 15, 2026— More than a decade after its launch, the basic school, presented as the cornerstone of the modernization of Burundian education, is now at
Construction in Burundi : an expert warns of collapse risks due to non-compliance with standards
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 13, 2026 – Failure to comply with building construction standards, particularly for multi-story buildings, could expose Burundi to preventable disasters. This is the warning issued