Photo of the week : the decision to close Gitega International School sends shockwaves through 736 pupils and their families
Photo of the week : the decision to close Gitega International School sends shockwaves through 736 pupils and their families
The decision by the Minister of National Education and Scientific Research, François Havyarimana, to close the Gitega International School, located in the political capital of the small East African nation,
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