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Photo of the week : over 70 people arrested in 8 months for having illegally traveled to Rwanda

Residents of villages bordering Rwanda in Mugina district, in Cibitoke province (northwest Burundi), no longer hide their concerns. More than 70 people have already been arrested by the police in

Refugees

Dzaleka (Malawi): the start of the school year reckoned bad

A week before the start of the school year, refugees in Dzaleka camp in Malawi are complaining that all the places in the camp’s only school are reserved for the

Society

Fuel crisis: parents and children no longer know where to turn as the school year nears

In Bujumbura, the Burundi’s financial capital, where the United Nations agencies and the central administration are concentrated, the main criterion for finding a school where to enroll your child is

Society

Burundi: Farmers urged to adapt their farming activities to the climate

The Geographical Institute of Burundi (IGEBU) announced last Wednesday the start of the growing season A, “Agatasi”. The Institute says the season tends to be rainier than the previous year

Refugees

Nduta (Tanzania) : Resumption of the ransacking of refugees’ fields

The Nduta camp administration has ordered the destruction of the refugees’ vegetable and cereal fields. For the administration, this type of agricultural and commercial activity discourages the voluntary repatriation movement.

Health

Makamba : refusal to harmonize salaries by the provincial health authority, employees denounce embezzlement of funds

For more than two years, health officials in Makamba province (southern Burundi) have been reluctant to harmonize salaries in the health sector, while the Ministry of Health ordered this harmonization

Health

Burundi : fight against the Mpox pandemic, city dwellers seem to trivialize the disease

Measures to prevent the spread of monkeypox are not seriously respected in different neighborhoods of the commercial capital Bujumbura. Despite incessant calls and warnings from the authorities, the population turns

Criminalité

Giharo – Rutana : CNL activists mistreated by CNDD-FDD activists

According to officials of the opposition CNL party in Giharo district, in Rutana province (southeast Burundi), activists of their party are mistreated by members of the CNDD-FDD party. The latest

Economy

Burundi: Government releases 66 billion for the general population census while waiting for its partners’ financing to come

Development partners who promised to support the country for the general census of the population, housing, agriculture and livestock have not yet honored their commitments, the president of the Central

Security

Day dedicated to the Imbonerakure: one dead and 10 injured in a road accident in Makamba

A leader of the Imbonerakure in the Gitara zone in Makamba commune and province (southern Burundi) died in a road accident on road number 3 in the locality of Rimbo