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Refugees

Burundi : no more funds to finance university studies for refugee and returnee students

Young refugee and returnee graduates in Burundi are facing the unavailability of funds for the DAFI scholarship. This concerns the 2024-2025 academic year. The hope of many young refugee and

Society

Rumonge : more than two hundred people displaced by torrential rains

At least 230 people have been homeless since last Friday. Their homes were destroyed by torrential rains combined with violent winds in Rumonge (southwest Burundi). The administration is struggling to

Security

Cibitoke : the custody of the provincial police station decongested

At least 105 inmates from the custody of the provincial police station in Cibitoke (northwest Burundi) were transferred to the central prison of Mpimba in the commercial city of Bujumbura

Opinion

Burundi : Even if it means committing a national genocide!

Évariste Ndayishimiye does not stop at anything.Today, the survival of the Burundian citizen depends on his one and only voice, his vote. The decision is official : all rights, whatever

Criminalité

Makamba : a teacher arrested for impregnating his pupil

Léonidas Ndayishimiye was arrested on October 29 in the middle of class at the Saint Pierre Claver district secondary school in Makamba. According to a police source, the teacher was

Éducation

Makamba : the provincial boss of the CNDD-FDD cancels transfers of teachers

According to reliable sources, the provincial secretary of the CNDD-FDD party in the new province of Burunga, Sylvain Nzikoruriho, forced district directors of education through the provincial director of education,

DRC En

Uvira : Burundi and the DRC want to ease procedures for cross-border traders

The two neighbors in the Great Lakes region of Africa have launched a program aimed at reducing procedures imposed on cross-border traders. It is a program supported by the Common

Refugees

Ruyigi : increase in cases of arrests of Congolese refugees

Cases of arrests of Congolese refugees have increased recently in Ruyigi province (eastern Burundi). A police roadblock has been set up there. These cases are reported due to exits from

Refugees

Meheba (Zambia) : worrying increase in food prices on markets

Refugees in the Meheba camp in Zambia are alarmed by the increase considered exorbitant in prices on the camp markets. The increase concerns all basic foodstuffs and is partly due

DRC En

Walikale (DRC): the toll of the fighting is getting heavier

In just two weeks, 34 people have been killed, several others injured and more than 15 thousand households have fled in the violent fighting between the Congolese army and its