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Human Rights

Burundi : 407 deaths, 13,000 inmates, and 663 documented violations in a year, warns the Iteka league

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 2, 2026 – In Burundi, the human rights situation has deteriorated further over the past year. In its report covering the June 2025 – May

Criminalité

Gitega : a man lynched to death, accused of stealing a goat, two people arrested

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 2, 2026 – Venant Munyene died after being brutally beaten by residents of Nyamagandika village, in Gitega district and province, central Burundi. Accused of stealing

Criminalité

Bubanza : a woman in her seventies brutally murdered in a crop field, her 19-year-old grandson arrested

SOS Médias Burundi Bubanza, July 2, 2026 – Sylvane Ndayarinze, a woman in her seventies, was brutally murdered in a field in Mwanda village, in the Muramba zone of ​​Bubanza

Criminalité

Cibitoke : a boy accused of killing his father with a machete found hiding in Mugina

SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, June 30, 2026 – The young man wanted by police after the murder of his father in Munyika 2 village, in the Rugombo zone of ​​Cibitoke

DRC En

Bujumbura : a suspicious death of a Congolese national sends neighborhood chief back to Mpimba

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 30, 2026 – Two months after her release, Claudine Akimana, head of the Bwiza neighborhood in the Bwiza zone of the Mukaza district in Bujumbura,

Criminalité

Burundi : in Geneva, the UN Special Rapporteur denounces a persistent human rights crisis ahead of the 2027 presidential election

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 1, 2026 – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi, Fortuné Gaëtan Zongo, has painted a particularly worrying picture

Politic

Burundi : on the 64th anniversary of independence, President Ndayishimiye attacks “colonists,” the church, and the civil society

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 1, 2026 – Burundi celebrated the 64th anniversary of its independence on Wednesday, which was achieved on July 1, 1962. On this occasion, President Évariste

Diplomacy

DRC : Kinshasa and Gitega strengthen their military alliance in South Kivu

SOS Médias Burundi Goma, June 29, 2026 – The presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, and Burundi, Évariste Ndayishimiye, met in Kinshasa on June 22 to assess

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DRC : Kinshasa accuses Rwanda of three decades of atrocities before the International Court of Justice

SOS Médias Burundi Kinshasa, June 29, 2026 – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has taken its dispute with Rwanda to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing its neighbor

Photo de la semaine

Photo of the week-Gitega : a school for blind children appeals for help in the face of urgent needs

The Santa Lucia Primary School in Mushasha, located in the city of Gitega, the political capital of Burundi, in the center of this small East African nation, is sounding the