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Governance

Muyinga : the presidential prayer overshadowed by extortion and forced mobilization

SOS Médias Burundi Muyinga, June 19, 2026 – Presented as a major gathering of faith and gratitude to God, the presidential prayer organized in Muyinga, in the Buhumuza province of

Criminalité

Gitega : two people found hanged in a single day, concern grows

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, June 18, 2026 – Two people were found hanged on Wednesday in separate circumstances in the district and province of Gitega, in central Burundi. While police

Éducation

Burundi : fraud, abuse, and misconduct in some schools, FENASEB raises the alarm

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 13, 2026 – The National Federation of Education Sector Unions of Burundi (FENASEB) is raising the alarm about a series of concerning practices in some

Governance

Kayanza : 1,600 tons of minerals exported, MPs question revenue destination

SOS Médias Burundi Kayanza, June 12, 2026 – The management of revenues from mining operations in the former district of Kabarore, now part of the district of Kayanza, in Butanyerera

Politic

Burundi : the controversy erupts over the transfer of Melchior Ndadaye’s remains

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 18, 2026 – The Burundian government’s plan to transfer the remains of several historical figures to a future national memorial in Kiriri is already sparking

Human Rights

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

Society

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

Criminalité

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

Diplomacy

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

Criminalité

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