UnfilteredBrush : “targets locked… fire at will!”

Opinion

UnfilteredBrush : “targets locked… fire at will!”

In a country where even eagles seem to have official badges, the President, clinging to his slingshot power like a Sunday archer, has identified his new “targets” : civil society

Governance

Bubanza : a strategic mining site brings down two officials in one week

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, November 16, 2025 – Two days after the dismissal of the Bubanza district administrator on October 31, the provincial police commissioner, Épitace Gitamira, was also suspended

Refugees

Dzaleka (Malawi) : three months without assistance for refugees

SOS Médias Burundi Dzaleka, November 16, 2025 – Refugees in the Dzaleka camp, Malawi, are denouncing the lack of cash assistance for three months, which is causing serious social and

Criminalité

Gitega : a septuagenarian found with h8s throat slit in Rutegama, a land dispute suspected

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, November 16, 2025 – The once relatively calm province of Gitega appears to be spiraling into violence. Around ten bodies have been found since last October,

Criminalité

Burundi : arbitrary arrests and unjustified detentions of Congolese, the justice system under scrutiny

SOS Médias Burundi Muyinga, November 15, 2025 — Jean-Pierre Kagalanu, Yohana Munga, Omar Byamungu, Louis Ombeni Banyanga, Gafarasi Kimanuka Bisongo, Claude Ndungutse, Jean-Paul Mbonimpa, Tantine Nyakumi, Brigitte Kabulo Mukamba… these

Criminalité

Buheka in shock : a series of tragedies shakes the entire village

SOS Médias Burundi Nyanza, November 15, 2025 — Buheka village, in the district of Nyanza, in the province of Burunga in the south of the small east African nation, is

Criminalité

Gitega : a second woman’s body found, the population demands thorough investigations

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, November 15, 2025 — Hardly a day goes by without a body being found in Gitega province, described by several local analysts as a “cemetery province.”

Criminalité

Burundi : a violent explosion disrupts President Ndayishimiye’s visit to a gold mining cooperative in Mugina

SOS Médias Burundi Mugina, November 15, 2025 — A powerful explosion, described by witnesses as a lightning strike, caused panic on Friday during a visit by Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye

Refugees

Tanzania: Authorities formalize forced repatriation of Burundian refugees

SOS Media Burundi Kigoma, November 14, 2025 — The Tanzanian Ministry of the Interior and UNHCR posted a long list of Burundian refugees on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, urging them

Criminalité

Cibitoke : several bodies discovered in the district, growing concern

SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, November 14, 2025 — The district of Cibitoke, in Bujumbura province in western Burundi, has been shaken by a series of gruesome discoveries since the beginning