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

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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

Criminalité

Bujumbura : secret services arrest a DRC embassy employee, a prominent Banyamulenge figure

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 28, 2025 – The arrest of Laurent Ruboneka Musabwa at dawn on Sunday by agents of the National Intelligence Service (SNR), police, and military personnel

Economy

Bujumbura : Faustin Ndikumana calls for the independence of the Burundi Central Bank

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 27, 2025 – The president of the organization Speech and Actions for the Revival of Conscience and Mentality Change (PARCEM), Faustin Ndikumana, launched an urgent

Criminalité

Rumonge : a wave of arrests of traders accused of speculating on Brarudi products

SOS Médias Burundi Rumonge, July 27, 2025 – Law enforcement continues its hunt for speculators in products from the Burundi Brewery Factory (Brarudi) in Burunga province, in the south of

Politic

Senatorial elections in Burundi : the CNDD-FDD wins all seats, the opposition swept aside

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 27, 2025 – Burundi’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) announced the provisional results of the July 23 senatorial elections on Friday. According to its president,

Criminalité

Mahama (Rwanda) : a newborn found abandoned in the savannah, a Burundian teenage girl arrested

SOS Médias Burundi Mahama, July 27, 2025 – A newborn baby was discovered abandoned at dawn on Friday, July 25, in an isolated area of the Mahama refugee camp in

Diplomacy

Burunga : growing tensions around the Muragarazi River between the Burundian and Tanzanian populations

SOS Médias Burundi Burunga, July 25, 2025 – The recent flooding of the Muragarazi River, which marks the border between Burundi and Tanzania, has displaced some Burundian lands into the

DRC En

DRC and Rwanda sign a new agreement with the UNHCR despite Rwanda’s tougher stance

SOS Médias Burundi Goma, July 25, 2025 – The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda signed an important agreement on Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the principles of voluntary

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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

Criminalité

Butanyerera : a woman found dead, tied to a tree in Muhingira

SOS Médias Burundi Matongo, July 25, 2025 – A week after the discovery of a man’s body in the Nyawisesera River (same region), a new tragedy has caused shock. The