Nakivale (Uganda): the camp works to protect the rights of albinos

Refugees

Nakivale (Uganda): the camp works to protect the rights of albinos

The Uganda Union of People Living with Albinism organized awareness sessions in schools in Nakivale camp for the protection of the rights of albino children. For albinos, this training comes

Refugees

Nyarugusu (Tanzania) : three Burundian refugees attacked

These Burundians were going outside the camp to harvest sweet potatoes in their fields. Burundian civilian guards who collaborate with Tanzanians prevented them from doing so. They seriously beat them

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Bujumbura : Elements of the presidential guard jailed for accepting a valuable gift

Police Colonel Christian Nyabenda, head of operations at the Support Group for the Protection of Institutions (GAPI), two other officers from the same group including a woman as well as

Refugees

Kakuma (Kenya): more than 450 Sudanese refugees return to the camp

Sudanese refugees had fled clashes between two Sudanese communities that occurred in Kalobeyei last July. Several of them had found refuge at the Kakuma camp, others in villages surrounding the

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Bujumbura : Two police officers sentenced to pay fines for beating up a political party leader

It is the Ntahangwa Court in the north of the commercial city of Bujumbura that sentenced the two officers on Tuesday. Gabriel Banzawitonde, chairperson of the APDR party – the

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Gatumba Massacres : filing of several complaints for crimes against humanity and genocide

The Banyamulenge community living in Burundi and that of the diaspora commemorate on Tuesday the massacre of more than 160 Congolese that occurred on August 13, 2004 in Gatumba, about

Health

Health : Members of the health insurance mutuality for civil servants grumble about the census of public and similar employees

According to members of the civil service in the southern provinces of the country, they have been facing a lot of difficulties since the start of the census of public

Society

Mahama (Rwanda) : Handicap International closes its offices to the disadvantage of refugees

The NGO that deals with a large part of the health component leaves behind several serious untreated ophthalmological cases. Some have already reached the stage of cancer. The most needy

Society

Bujumbura: the high cost of living negatively affects breastfeeding

Many pregnant and breastfeeding women met in August 2024 in the northern neighborhoods of Bujumbura town such as Mutakura, Buterere, Ngagara and Cibitoke say they do not eat enough to

Governance

Gitega: cheating in granting the national identity card as 2025 elections approach

During a meeting to prepare the establishment of members of the independent communal electoral commissions (CECI) held Thursday in the political capital Gitega, Monseigneur Évariste Nijimbere, bishop of the Anglican