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Gitega : a physician sentenced to three years in prison for refusing to help a child in danger

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 31, 2025 – The First Instance Court (TGI) of Gitega, in the political capital of Burundi, sentenced Dr. Diomède Kabura to three years of penal

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Ngozi : a lawyer gets 20 years for the murder of his adoptive brother, community in shock

SOS Médias Burundi Ngozi, July 30, 2025 – The verdict came like a thunderclap. The Ngozi Court of Appeal, in Butanyerera province in northern Burundi, sentenced lawyer Elvis Frank Ngendakumana

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Ruyigi (Buhumuza) : grave desecrators heavily sentenced by the courts

SOS Médias Burundi, Ruyigi, July 29, 2025 In the Ruyigi region, in Buhumuza province (eastern Burundi), the courts have struck hard against grave desecrators. On Monday evening, the Ruyigi First

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Bujumbura : grey areas surrounding the case of Ruboneka, arrested and rushed to Kinshasa

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 29, 2025 – Arrested on Sunday, July 27 in Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi, by Burundian security services, Laurent Ruboneka Musabwa, an employee of

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Bugendana and Teza: 29 years later, survivors of the massacres described as genocide demand truth and justice

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 28, 2025 – Twenty-nine years after the Bugendana and Teza massacres, in which 648 displaced persons and 90 tea factory workers were murdered, survivors and

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Burunga : a man sentenced to 10 years for rape of a minor in Rumonge

SOS Médias Burundi Rumonge, July 25, 2025 – The First Instance Court of Rumonge, in Burunga province (southern Burundi), sentenced Eddy Émile Nkurunziza on Tuesday, July 22, to a 10-year

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Makamba : a life sentence for the brutal murder of a village mediator in Gikuzi

SOS Médias Burundi Makamba, July 24, 2025 – The Makamba First Instance Court in Burunga province delivered a highly anticipated verdict on Thursday in a murder case that deeply shocked

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Prison relief in Burundi : between official figures and troubling realities

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 18, 2025 – 49 men and 5 women were released on Friday from Mpimba Central Prison in Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi. They are

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Cibitoke : women denounce the slow pace of justice in land disputes

SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, July 9, 2025 – In this region of northwestern Burundi, women are speaking out against what they describe as “unjustified slowness” in the handling of land

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Burundi – impunity in Buhumuza : an elderly man beaten by Imbonerakure after criticizing the government

SOS Médias Burundi Buhumuza, July 5, 2025 – A sexagenarian man was violently attacked by youths affiliated with the ruling party after denouncing electoral fraud. The case outraged the local