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Economy

Price increase for Brarudi products : ABUCO calls on the government

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 16, 2025 – The Burundi Brewery Company (Brarudi) announced, in a press release published on August 12, a significant price increase for its products, effective

Governance

Kirundo : the morgue out of service, hasty burials for the deceased

SOS Médias Burundi Kirundo, August 16, 2025 – The morgue at Kirundo Hospital, in Butanyerera Province (northern Burundi), remained out of service for almost a week, plunging families and medical

Governance

Bururi : an extended Lumitel outage, slowdown in operations

SOS Médias Burundi Bururi, August 16, 2025 – Since Tuesday, August 12, the Lumitel network has been out of service in the town of Bururi, in Burunga province, in southern

Human Rights

Burundi : the National Communication Council suspends the private media synergy on a 56-month fuel shortage

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 16, 2025 – The National Communication Council (CNC) suspended on Thursday the private media synergy planned by several radio stations and newspapers in the country,

Justice En

Burundi : former Hutu rebel leader Jean Bosco Ndayikengurukiye arrested in a fuel trafficking case

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 16, 2025 – Former Hutu rebel leader Jean Bosco Ndayikengurukiye, exiled for challenging Pierre Nkurunziza’s third term and returning to the country in 2021, was

Criminalité

Rutana: twenty years in prison for arson and aggravated theft

SOS Médias Burundi Rutana, August 16, 2025 – The Rutana First Instance Court, in the southern province of Burunga, sentenced Égide Njejimana on Thursday, August 14, 2025, to twenty years

Criminalité

Two tragedies rock Gitega province : one man fatally beaten and another found hanged

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, August 14, 2025 – Gitega province, in the center of the small east African nation, was marked, during the same week, by two separate tragedies that

Justice En

Bujumbura : Colonel Moïse Arakaza, alias Nyeganyega, detained for illegal fuel trafficking

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 14, 2025 – Police Colonel Moïse Arakaza, alias Nyeganyega—often cited in cases of human rights violations—was arrested on Thursday in Bujumbura. He is suspected of

Criminalité

Burunga : an arson attack at a traditional healer’s home, the instigator still at large

SOS Médias Burundi Makamba, August 14, 2025 – A man has been detained for nearly a month in the cells of the Makamba prosecutor’s office in Burunga province, southern Burundi.

Criminalité

Gatumba massacre : endless mourning for the Banyamulenge

SOS Médias Burundi Bukavu / Bujumbura – August 13, 2025 – Twenty-one years after the Gatumba massacre, the pain remains raw and the thirst for justice undiminished. On Wednesday, the