Burundi Red Cross Society’s alarm call : Katiyunguruza calls for the reopening of borders with Rwanda

Health

Burundi Red Cross Society’s alarm call : Katiyunguruza calls for the reopening of borders with Rwanda

SOS Médias Burundi, Butanyerera, September 19, 2025 – On the International First Aid Day, the Burundi Red Cross Society launched an urgent appeal for the reopening of the borders with

Éducation

Burunga : a scandal surrounds the teacher recruitment

SOS Médias Burundi Burunga, September 19, 2025 – In Burunga, in the south of the small east African nation, many voices are denouncing serious irregularities during recent teacher recruitment tests.

Society

Bururi : drinking water shortage in Rutovu, residents sound the alarm

SOS Médias Burundi Rutovu, September 19, 2025 – The population of Rutovu, in the Bururi district, Burunga province in southern Burundi, is sounding the alarm about a drinking water shortage

Refugees

Mahama camp : the distress of children turns into suicides

SOS Médias Burundi Mahama, September 18, 2025 – In the last three months, five suicide cases, several involving children, have been recorded in Mahama camp in eastern Rwanda. Most are

Criminalité

Ferdinand Nyabenda, fell to the front in DRC : his family demands justice and dignified funerals

SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, September 18, 2025 – Three months after the death of their father on the front in the DRC, the family of Ferdinand Nyabenda, nicknamed Bikora, still

DRC En

Conflict in the DRC : the specter of flat embrace on Western Burundi

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, September 18, 2025 – In western Burundi, borders are under high tension. The M23, a former Tutsi rebellion active in the DRC since 2021, is making

Health

Cholera epidemic : 226 cases registered in northwestern Burundi, MSF comes to the rescue

SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, September 18, 2025 – Since the beginning of September, 226 cases of cholera have been recorded in the districts of Cibitoke and Bukinanyana, in Bujumbura province

Refugees

Refugee camps : when school becomes a daily challenge

SOS Médias Burundi Cankuzo, September 17, 2025 — On Monday, September 15, refugee pupils living in Burundi’s refugee camps began the 2025-2026 school year. The start of the school year

Governance

Power outages : local radio stations suffocate in the dark

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, September 17, 2025 — Burundian local radio stations are going through an unprecedented crisis. Power outages, which have become almost daily, cripple studios, interrupt shows and

Criminalité

Bubanza : five Imbonerakure, including four brothers, sentenced to a life jail for the murder of a five-year-old

SOS Médias Burundi Bubanza, September 17, 2025 — The First Instance Court of Bubanza, in Bujumbura province in western Burundi, on Wednesday sentenced Daniel Murihano and his four sons, all