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Refugees

Tanzania : “Go and See” last round?

The Tanzanian and Burundian governments in collaboration with the UNHCR have organized yet another commission of Burundian refugees who are going to their country to come back and convince their

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Tanzania-Burundi: Tanzanian police extradite more than 60 Burundians, mostly minors

The Tanzanian police last Saturday handed over about forty Burundian children to Burundi at the Mugina border post in Mabanda commune in Makamba province (southern Burundi). Another 29 including 16

Photo de la semaine

Photo of the week : the price of unobtainable sugar multiplied by almost three times

The price of a kg of sugar for the retailer goes to 8000 Burundi francs while it was bought at 3500. The Moso Sugar Company (SOSUMO), the only state company

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DRC (Kalehe): 4 people killed and 8 others injured

The civil society of the Kalehe territory in the province of South Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, asks the government to bring to justice soldiers

Economy

Fuel crisis: in Kirundo, travelers lament the lack of transport buses

The prolonged fuel crisis affects passengers and transporters in the Kirundo province in northern Burundi. Cimmuters complain of missing transport buses while transporters say they are working at a loss.

Éducation

Rumonge: a school year amidst clean water crisis and lack of mattresses

It was this Monday, September 16 that the school year began throughout the country. Boarding schools began receiving students last Sunday. At the Rumonge high school (southwest Burundi), school authorities

Refugees

Zambia: nearly 200 Burundian undocumented immigrants extradited

Two weeks of tracking down of undocumented immigrants in the Zambian capital and its surroundings ended last weekend. The police announced that more than 350 illegal immigrants, over half being

Refugees

Ituri (DRC) : the mortality rate skyrockets among displaced people

At least sixteen displaced people have died in two months in the Nyamusasi site for displaced people. It is in Ituri province in eastern DRC. Sources in the camp speak

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Rugombo: a police officer caught red-handed stealing fuel from a gas station

A police brigadier from the Rugombo communal police station, in Cibitoke province (north-west Burundi) was caught stealing fuel from a station in the chief town of the Rugombo commune by

Society

Photo of the week : water shortage in the urban center of the province

Water is sorely lacking in the town center of Cibitoke province (northwest Burundi). For more than a week, not a drop was seen in the taps. The population fears the