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Criminalité

War in Eastern Congo : Is South Africa planning to use Bujumbura airport to send new troops to Congo?

At least two South African army planes landed at Bujumbura airport in the commercial city of Burundi last Wednesday. They were carrying soldiers who were supposed to reinforce positions of

Refugees

Muyinga-Ngozi : urban Congolese refugees expelled

In Muyinga in northeast Burundi, a hundred refugees from camps of Musasa in the province of Ngozi (north) and Kinama in the province of Muyinga, were expelled last Friday to

Criminalité

Giheta: discovery of a corpse

A decomposing body of a man was discovered last Saturday in the Nyambeho valley separating the communes of Gitega and Giheta in the province of Gitega (central Burundi). It has

Criminalité

Cibitoke : a series of deadly landslides hit gold mining sites

In the space of a few weeks, the province of Cibitoke has been the scene of several mining tragedies. Landslides caused by heavy rainfall have already cost the lives of

Criminalité

Gatumba: an increasing number of Congolese flee to Burundi, some end up in custody

Several Congolese from the cities of Goma, Bukavu and Uvira, in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu in the east of the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) keep

Diplomacy

Photo of the week : a man detained for wearing a T-shirt labeled “Visit Rwanda” at Nyanza-Lac

Patrick Nsengiyumva was arrested last Friday at his home in Kabonga by the police of Nyanza-Lac, in the province of Makamba (southern Burundi). His relatives denounce “arbitrary detention” and demand

Criminalité

Bujumbura : the “abusive” detention of journalist Kenny Claude Nduwimana risks tarnishing the country’s image according to the CNIDH

The chairperson of the National Independent Human Rights Commission, CNIDH, deplores the situation of abusively keeping detainees in prisons while they have already served their sentence. Sixte Vigny Nimuraba said

Economy

Nyanza-Lac : a dozen fuel traffickers arrested by the police

Faced with a persistent fuel shortage in Nyanza-Lac, the police are stepping up their crackdown on illegal fuel trade. A dozen suspected traffickers have been arrested in recent weeks, raising

Refugees

Nakivale (Uganda) : updating data on vulnerable refugees

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is currently updating the data on the most vulnerable refugees in the Nakivale camp. This exercise, which concerns all refugee camps in

Criminalité

Rumonge : nearly a hundred pupils subjected to paramilitary training by the CNDD-FDD

Pupils from Rumonge secondary school and neighboring primary schools were summoned on Wednesday to a meeting organized by members of the CNDD-FDD, the former Hutu rebellion that became the ruling