Éducation
Bujumbura : the 2025 school year weighed down by inflation and stagnant wages
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, September 12, 2025 – With the start of the school year scheduled for September 15 in Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi, Burundian families are experiencing
Burundi : the Minister of Education cancels all recent transfers on the eve of the start of the school year
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, September 4, 2025 – The Minister of Education denounces illegal transfers and imposes an immediate return to their original schools, under penalty of salary suspension. The
School, cycle, and section closures : the Ministry of National Education tightens the screws
SOS Médias Burundi With the start of the school year scheduled for next September, the Ministry of National Education is closing several schools, cycles, and sections in three provinces for
Education in peril : Burundian teachers flee a system on its end
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 29, 2025 – Between low salaries, precarious living conditions, and a lack of prospects, more and more primary and secondary school teachers are leaving the
Karusi : where are the 6,700 missing pupils?
SOS Médias Burundi Karusi, July 11, 2025 – Mass school dropouts, poverty, illegal migration… The former province of Karusi, now part of Gitega province (central Burundi), is facing an unprecedented
Rumonge : school results blocked, volunteer teachers angry
SOS Médias Burundi Rumonge, June 29, 2025 — In several secondary schools in the district of Rumonge (southwestern Burundi), end-of-year report cards have still not been given to pupils. The
Cibitoke : report cards held hostage by volunteer teachers
SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, June 29, 2025 – For several months, a silent crisis has been shaking secondary schools in Cibitoke province (northwestern Burundi). Volunteer teachers, locally known as “Abakutsakivi,”
Education in Burundi: Lawmakers Sound the Alarm Over Alarming Deterioration of the School System
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 23, 2025 – Once considered a model in Central and East Africa, Burundi’s education system is now in crisis. Concerned lawmakers, plummeting academic standards, and
Kinyinya : rising sexual violence threatens girls’ education
SOS Médias Burundi Kinyinya, April 27, 2025 – The district of Kinyinya, in Ruyigi province (eastern Burundi), is facing an alarming upsurge in sexual violence targeting underage girls. Since mid-March,
Exam cheating scandal : a school principal detained in Rumonge, suspicions of political protection
SOS Médias BurundiRumonge, April 19, 2025 – The principal of the Mugara primary school in the district of Rumonge has been detained for a week at the provincial police station.