Criminalité
Gitega : the fertilizer shortage threatens crops and food security
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, February 24, 2026 – As the planting season for the farming season B draws to a close, farmers in Gitega are denouncing insufficient, delayed, or incomplete
Dawn bombings on Rubaya : North Kivu entering a new deadly phase?
SOS Médias Burundi Goma, February 24, 2026 – Bombings reported at dawn on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, in the mining town of Rubaya mark a worrying turning point in the
Bujumbura : young people humiliated and searched by police and Imbonerakure, arbitrarily accused of being “M23 rebels”
INFO SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, February 23, 2026 – In downtown Bujumbura, Burundi’s commercial capital, young people are denouncing arbitrary and humiliating backpack checks by police in front of the
Burundi : systematic persecution of independent press, journalist Sandra Muhoza targeted
SOS Médias Burundi Ngozi, February 20, 2026 – The prosecutor’s office at the Ngozi Court of Appeal, in the north of the small east African nation, is requesting confirmation of
Mugina : a 48-year-old man found dead in a ditch in Nyempundu
SOS Médias Burundi Mugina, February 20, 2026 – The lifeless body of a man known as Ciza, aged 48 years, was discovered Thursday morning in a ditch in Nyempundu village,
Gitega: a second body recovered in less than a week from the Nyakijanda River
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, February 21, 2026 – A new tragedy has shaken the heart of this small east African nation. The lifeless body of 25-year-old Jeanine Nkunzimana was discovered
Burundi : the National Assembly spokesperson arrested then released after hacking accusations
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, February 21, 2026 – Aimé Emmanuel Nibigira, senior communications advisor and spokesperson for the National Assembly of Burundi, was arrested on Friday, February 13, 2026, before
Double tragedy in Muhanga : two men arrested after a grenade murder
SOS Médias Burundi, Muhanga, February 19, 2026 – Two residents of the Gikomero zone, Muhanga district, Butanyerera province, were arrested by police as part of the investigation into the murder
Triple murder in Nyanza : a man suspected of killing his Wife, his child, and another Woman
SOS Médias Burundi Nyanza, February 19, 2026 – Three people, including a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, were brutally murdered on the night of Wednesday, February 18, to Thursday, February 19, in Mugumure
Bujumbura : two Jimbere journalists arrested while covering a 21-year-old land dspute
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, February 19, 2026 – Since Wednesday, February 18, 2026, journalists Olivier Manirambona and Aline Niyonizigiye, a camerawoman and breastfeeding mother, from Jimbere magazine, have been detained