Mahama (Rwanda): Congolese Refugees Quietly Return to Rebel-Controlled DRC

Refugees

Mahama (Rwanda): Congolese Refugees Quietly Return to Rebel-Controlled DRC

SOS Médias Burundi Mahama, June 18, 2025 — Since the M23 rebel group and its affiliated politico-military coalition, the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), seized control of key cities in North

Society

Burundi – fertilizers unobtainable : farmers pay but still wait

SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, June 16, 2025 —While the seeds have already been planted, thousands of Burundian farmers are still waiting for the urea fertilizer they paid for. This shortage

Photo de la semaine

Photo of the week-Lake Tanganyika : more than a lake, a life threatened by inaction

Lake Tanganyika, one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes, benefits from exemplary cooperation between Burundi, the DRC, Tanzania, and Zambia through the Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA). However, in Burundi, inaction

Criminalité

Gikungu : a money transfer agent killed by a soldier

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 16, 2025 – A tragedy struck the Gikungu neighborhood, in the Gihosha zone, Ntahangwa district (north of the commercial capital Bujumbura), on Monday morning. Chantal

DRC En

Giharo : illegal fines imposed on Congolese refugees in search of survival

SOS Médias Burundi Rutana, June 16, 2025 — Congolese refugees living at the Musenyi site, in Giharo district (Rutana province) in southeastern Burundi, are denouncing abusive practices by Burundian police.

Human Rights

Burundi : Ndayishimiye defends the CNDD-FDD victory and calls for a formal denunciation of electoral fraud

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, June 16, 2025 – As the results of the June 5 district and legislative elections are hotly contested, President Évariste Ndayishimiye is taking a stand. From

Criminalité

Burundi : ACG CIRIMOSO denounces the arrest of Tutsi survivors invited to a memorial meeting in Nairobi

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 16, 2025 – Three representatives of Burundian genocide survivor associations were arrested on Friday as they were preparing to travel to Kenya to attend a

Refugees

Kavumu : a Rwandan refugee stabbed to death near the camp, three suspects arrested

SOS Médias Burundi Cankuzo, June 16, 2025 – A young Rwandan refugee was violently stabbed to death near the Kavumu camp in eastern Burundi. Three Congolese refugees were arrested. The

Criminalité

Cibitoke: two bodies found on the banks of the Rusizi River – mystery and concern on the Burundi-DRC border

SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, June 15, 2025 – The bodies of two men were discovered on Saturday morning, June 14, on the banks of the Rusizi River, in the district

Criminalité

Burundi : controversial arrest of Father Paul Butoyi, parish priest of Mutumba SOS Médias Burundi Rumonge, June 15, 2025 – The arrest of Father Paul Butoyi, parish priest of the