Criminalité
Masisi : more than 200 dead in landslide at artisanal mine in Rubaya
Goma, January 31, 2026 – A tragedy has struck the artisanal mining site of Rubaya, in the Masisi territory of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 200 miners lost
South Kivu : the battle of Point Zero revives the highlands front
Bukavu, January 31, 2026 – The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), supported by the Burundi National Defense Force (FDNB) and Wazalendo militias, recaptured the strategic location
Buhumuza : 22 Congolese refugees die in a single day at Busuma camp
SOS Médias Burundi Ruyigi, January 31, 2026 – The humanitarian situation at the Busuma refugee camp in Buhumuza province, eastern Burundi, has reached a critical level. Twenty-two Congolese refugees lost
South Kivu : 4 dead and 11 wounded in a grenade explosion in Sange
SOS Médias Burundi Bukavu, January 30, 2026 – In South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, four people were killed and eleven others wounded on Thursday, January 29,
Gitega : an army officer sentenced to a life jail for the murder of a young woman
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, January 30, 2026 – A Burundian army officer has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the military court sitting in Gitega, central Burundi, for the murder
Cibitoke : overcrowded, sick, and abandoned inmates
SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, January 30, 2026 – The detaining cells at the Cibitoke police station in Bujumbura province, western Burundi, are facing alarming overcrowding. A total of 179 detainees,
Burundi : a 12-year-old girl brutally murdered in Matana
SOS Médias Burundi Matana, January 29, 2026 – The lifeless body of a 12-year-old girl was discovered on Wednesday in the bush in Mutobo village, in Matana district, Burunga province
Busuma : attempts to return to DR Congo, Congolese refugees arrested and forcibly returned to the camp
SOS Médias Burundi Ruyigi, January 28, 2026 — In recent days, several Congolese refugees from the Busuma camp, located in the district of Ruyigi, Buhumuza province, in eastern Burundi, have
Cibitoke : 35 Imbonerakure detained for illegal trafficking and clandestine crossings into the DRC
SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, January 27, 2026 – Thirty-five members of the Imbonerakure, the youth wing of the CNDD-FDD party, have been detained for nearly two weeks in the cells
Cibitoke : three bodies found on the banks of the Rusizi River
SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, January 27, 2026 – The lifeless bodies of a man, a woman, and a child were discovered Tuesday morning on the banks of the Rusizi River,