Photo of the week-Gatumba massacre : an endless mourning for the Banyamulenge

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Photo of the week-Gatumba massacre : an endless mourning for the Banyamulenge

Twenty-one years after the Gatumba massacre, the pain remains raw and the thirst for justice undiminished. On Wednesday, the Banyamulenge community around the world commemorated this tragedy of August 13,

Economy

Price increase for Brarudi products : ABUCO calls on the government

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 16, 2025 – The Burundi Brewery Company (Brarudi) announced, in a press release published on August 12, a significant price increase for its products, effective

Society

Kirundo : the morgue out of service, hasty burials for the deceased

SOS Médias Burundi Kirundo, August 16, 2025 – The morgue at Kirundo Hospital, in Butanyerera Province (northern Burundi), remained out of service for almost a week, plunging families and medical

Economy

Bururi : an extended Lumitel outage, slowdown in operations

SOS Médias Burundi Bururi, August 16, 2025 – Since Tuesday, August 12, the Lumitel network has been out of service in the town of Bururi, in Burunga province, in southern

Human Rights

Burundi : the National Communication Council suspends the private media synergy on a 56-month fuel shortage

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 16, 2025 – The National Communication Council (CNC) suspended on Thursday the private media synergy planned by several radio stations and newspapers in the country,

Justice En

Burundi : former Hutu rebel leader Jean Bosco Ndayikengurukiye arrested in a fuel trafficking case

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 16, 2025 – Former Hutu rebel leader Jean Bosco Ndayikengurukiye, exiled for challenging Pierre Nkurunziza’s third term and returning to the country in 2021, was

Criminalité

Rutana: twenty years in prison for arson and aggravated theft

SOS Médias Burundi Rutana, August 16, 2025 – The Rutana First Instance Court, in the southern province of Burunga, sentenced Égide Njejimana on Thursday, August 14, 2025, to twenty years

Criminalité

Two tragedies rock Gitega province : one man fatally beaten and another found hanged

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, August 14, 2025 – Gitega province, in the center of the small east African nation, was marked, during the same week, by two separate tragedies that

Justice En

Bujumbura : Colonel Moïse Arakaza, alias Nyeganyega, detained for illegal fuel trafficking

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 14, 2025 – Police Colonel Moïse Arakaza, alias Nyeganyega—often cited in cases of human rights violations—was arrested on Thursday in Bujumbura. He is suspected of

Criminalité

Burunga : an arson attack at a traditional healer’s home, the instigator still at large

SOS Médias Burundi Makamba, August 14, 2025 – A man has been detained for nearly a month in the cells of the Makamba prosecutor’s office in Burunga province, southern Burundi.