Burundi : Daniel Gélase Ndabirabe reappointed as Speaker of the National Assembly despite controversies

Politic

Burundi : Daniel Gélase Ndabirabe reappointed as Speaker of the National Assembly despite controversies

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, Thursday, July 31, 2025 – Daniel Gélase Ndabirabe was reappointed on Thursday as Speaker of the National Assembly of Burundi. The election was held in the

Diplomacy

Bujumbura: a second Congolese embassy official arrested and express transfers to Kinshasa amid regional tensions

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 30, 2025 – On the night of Monday, July 28, at 4:00 a.m., Félix Mweza, an official at the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of

Criminalité

Burunga : two women die fleeing Imbonerakure in a protected forest

SOS Médias Burundi Nyanza, July 30, 2025 – Two women from Nyanza district were found dead after being chased, according to witnesses, by three Imbonerakure charged with guarding a protected

Justice En

Gitega : a physician sentenced to three years in prison for refusing to help a child in danger

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 31, 2025 – The First Instance Court (TGI) of Gitega, in the political capital of Burundi, sentenced Dr. Diomède Kabura to three years of penal

Justice En

Ngozi : a lawyer gets 20 years for the murder of his adoptive brother, community in shock

SOS Médias Burundi Ngozi, July 30, 2025 – The verdict came like a thunderclap. The Ngozi Court of Appeal, in Butanyerera province in northern Burundi, sentenced lawyer Elvis Frank Ngendakumana

Economy

Burundi : the public transportation crisis spreads, passengers and businesses on their knees

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 29, 2025 – In Burundi, a strike by bus and taxi drivers has paralyzed travel throughout the country since last Sunday. Fueled by fuel shortages

Refugees

Dzaleka (Malawi) : over ten refugees murdered in two months

SOS Médias Burundi, Dzaleka, July 29, 2025 – The Dzaleka camp, located about forty kilometers from Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, is going through a period of intense insecurity. According

Society

Bujumbura : street vendors – “We no longer survive, we’re enduring”

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 29, 2025 – Faced with soaring prices, women street vendors in Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi, are struggling to survive. Their small businesses, the

Éducation

Education in peril : Burundian teachers flee a system on its end

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 29, 2025 – Between low salaries, precarious living conditions, and a lack of prospects, more and more primary and secondary school teachers are leaving the

Justice En

Ruyigi (Buhumuza) : grave desecrators heavily sentenced by the courts

SOS Médias Burundi, Ruyigi, July 29, 2025 In the Ruyigi region, in Buhumuza province (eastern Burundi), the courts have struck hard against grave desecrators. On Monday evening, the Ruyigi First