Burundi : Taxpayer’s day, the Finance minister torches OBR agents

Economy

Burundi : Taxpayer’s day, the Finance minister torches OBR agents

The taxpayer’s day was celebrated in the commercial capital Bujumbura for the 9th time. It was on Tuesday, December 3. Despite some challenges in revenue collection, the Commissioner General of

Economy

Bujumbura : President Neva wants to hang on

A round table of development partners and foreign investors has been held in Bujumbura, the commercial city of Burundi, since Thursday. The objective is to mobilize funding for the implementation

Criminalité

Gitega: a corpse discovered

A body of a man who has not been identified, was discovered on Thursday afternoon in the locality of Rutoke. It is in the district and province of Gitega (central

Governance

Kira Hospital case : Burundi faces serious consequences

The major shareholder of Burundi’s most prestigious clinic, Kira Hospital, wrote to the Burundian Minister of Justice to denounce the deliberate blocking of the dispossession file of the majority private

Refugees

Nakivale (Uganda) : the UNHCR investigates reasons for the non-voluntary repatriation of Burundian refugees

For almost two weeks, the UNHCR has been conducting interviews with Burundian refugees to find out why they do not want to return voluntarily and en masse. Those concerned do

Economy

Rumonge : about twenty traders including two police officers arrested

They were arrested on Monday. They are all sellers of Brarudi products, in the town center of Rumonge province (southwest Burundi). According to our sources, these traders are accused of

Society

Rumonge : the Magara-Gitaza section less passable

Users of the National Road number three (RN3) connecting the commercial city Bujumbura to Rumonge (southwest Burundi) are complaining. The Magara-Gitaza section has become less passable. The company in charge

Refugees

Cishemere : long waiting times, a major obstacle to the education of asylum-seeking children

The Cishemere transit camp, located in the province of Cibitoke (northwestern Burundi), hosts Congolese asylum seekers fleeing the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), particularly

Justice En

Nyanza-Lac : a representative of farmers arrested

Élias Ngendakuriyo, representative of farmers who have properties in the Nyabarere marsh, was arrested on Monday by a local police official. It is in the district of Nyanza-Lac in the

Criminalité

Kirundo-Makamba : resumption of hate speech against opponents and calls for lynching of opposition party activists

Last weekend, CNDD-FDD activists in the districts of Busoni and Nyanza-Lac, respectively in the provinces of Kirundo (north) and Makamba (south), organized demonstrations of force. Members of the CNDD-FDD youth