Burundi : the SIM card re-registration turns into chaos for thousands of subscribers
Burundi : the SIM card re-registration turns into chaos for thousands of subscribers
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 4, 2026 — Despite the official deadline of June 25, the mandatory re-registration of SIM cards continues in Burundi. Mobile phone operators’ offices remain overwhelmed,
Burundi : the decision to close Gitega International School sends shockwaves through 736 pupils and their families
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 4, 2026 — The decision by the Minister of National Education and Scientific Research, François Havyarimana, to close the Gitega International School, located in the
Burundi : a nurse sentenced for attempted rape of a mother in a hospital
SOS Médias Burundi Rutana, July 4, 2026 — Found guilty of attempted rape of a mother who came to spend the night at the bedside of her hospitalized child at
Burundi : 407 deaths, 13,000 inmates, and 663 documented violations in a year, warns the Iteka league
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 2, 2026 – In Burundi, the human rights situation has deteriorated further over the past year. In its report covering the June 2025 – May
Gitega : a man lynched to death, accused of stealing a goat, two people arrested
SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 2, 2026 – Venant Munyene died after being brutally beaten by residents of Nyamagandika village, in Gitega district and province, central Burundi. Accused of stealing
Bubanza : a woman in her seventies brutally murdered in a crop field, her 19-year-old grandson arrested
SOS Médias Burundi Bubanza, July 2, 2026 – Sylvane Ndayarinze, a woman in her seventies, was brutally murdered in a field in Mwanda village, in the Muramba zone of Bubanza
Cibitoke : a boy accused of killing his father with a machete found hiding in Mugina
SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, June 30, 2026 – The young man wanted by police after the murder of his father in Munyika 2 village, in the Rugombo zone of Cibitoke
Bujumbura : a suspicious death of a Congolese national sends neighborhood chief back to Mpimba
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 30, 2026 – Two months after her release, Claudine Akimana, head of the Bwiza neighborhood in the Bwiza zone of the Mukaza district in Bujumbura,
Burundi : in Geneva, the UN Special Rapporteur denounces a persistent human rights crisis ahead of the 2027 presidential election
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 1, 2026 – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi, Fortuné Gaëtan Zongo, has painted a particularly worrying picture
Burundi : on the 64th anniversary of independence, President Ndayishimiye attacks “colonists,” the church, and the civil society
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 1, 2026 – Burundi celebrated the 64th anniversary of its independence on Wednesday, which was achieved on July 1, 1962. On this occasion, President Évariste