Nyarugusu (Tanzania) : a hospital closed, Burundian refugees contact the UNHCR

Refugees

Nyarugusu (Tanzania) : a hospital closed, Burundian refugees contact the UNHCR

SOS Médias Burundi Nyarugusu, September 11, 2025 – The NGO Medical Team International has closed one of its hospitals in the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, a decision that has

Criminalité

Twenty-nine years after his assassination, the shadow of Bishop Joachim Ruhuna still hangs over Burundi

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, September 10, 2025 — Twenty-nine years after the assassination of Bishop Joachim Ruhuna, former Archbishop of Gitega, his relatives continue to demand justice. The prelate was

Criminalité

Police Brigadier General Bertin Gahungu transferred to a Bujumbura hospital

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, September 10, 2025 – Police Brigadier General Bertin Gahungu was transferred on Tuesday afternoon to a hospital in the commercial capital, Bujumbura, sources familiar with the

Criminalité

Bubanza : three Imbonerakure arrested after the murder of a peer educator in Karinzi

SOS Médias Burundi Bubanza, September 10, 2025 – In Bubanza, Bujumbura province (western Burundi), police arrested three members of the CNDD-FDD youth league, suspected of participating in the fatal lynching

Criminalité

Mugina : a mother and daughter seriously injured with a machete by fleeing Imbonerakure

SOS Médias Burundi, Mugina, September 10, 2025 – A violent machete attack left two women seriously injured on Tuesday, September 9, in Bubondo village, in Mugina district, Bujumbura province, in

Criminalité

Turned back and stranded at the border : the ordeal of Congolese refugees facing the Imbonerakure and the police

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, September 9, 2025 – Since Monday, September 8, 2025, several hundred Congolese refugees have been arrested in various localities in the districts of Cibitoke and Bukinanyana,

Security

Kirundo : security barriers, nighttime fear, and suspicions of corruption

SOS Médias Burundi Kirundo, September 8, 2025 — The installation of metal barriers and nighttime checkpoints at the entrances to the town of Kirundo, in northern Burundi, is causing a

DRC En

Uvira : 5 dead and several injured in a protest against General Olivier Gasita

SOS Médias Burundi Bukavu, September 8, 2025 — Violent clashes erupted on Monday in the city of Uvira (South Kivu) during a protest against the presence of Brigadier General Olivier

Diplomacy

Buhumuza : resettlement suspended – Congolese refugees face uncertainty

SOS Médias Burundi Ruyigi, September 8, 2025 – A delegation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Resettlement Service, Ruyigi office, in Buhumuza province in eastern Burundi, visited

Photo de la semaine

Photo of the week – Burundi : Enabel country director ordered to leave the country after sharing a cartoon on LinkedIn

David Leyssens, country director of the Belgian Development Agency (Enabel) in Burundi, was ordered to leave the Burundian territory last Saturday by the authorities. According to several concordant sources within