Burundi : fuel shortages and record fines paralyze the entire transportation network

Economy

Burundi : fuel shortages and record fines paralyze the entire transportation network

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 29, 2025 – A complete paralysis of public transportation has gripped the small east African nation. Since Sunday and throughout Monday, parking lots in Bujumbura,

Photo de la semaine

Photo of the week : roads that kill, a system that abandons

The Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Martin Niteretse, issued an alert earlier this week in Gitega, the political capital of Burundi, regarding the scale of road accidents in

Justice En

Bujumbura : grey areas surrounding the case of Ruboneka, arrested and rushed to Kinshasa

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 29, 2025 – Arrested on Sunday, July 27 in Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi, by Burundian security services, Laurent Ruboneka Musabwa, an employee of

Justice En

Bugendana and Teza: 29 years later, survivors of the massacres described as genocide demand truth and justice

SOS Médias Burundi Gitega, July 28, 2025 – Twenty-nine years after the Bugendana and Teza massacres, in which 648 displaced persons and 90 tea factory workers were murdered, survivors and

Criminalité

Bujumbura : secret services arrest a DRC embassy employee, a prominent Banyamulenge figure

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 28, 2025 – The arrest of Laurent Ruboneka Musabwa at dawn on Sunday by agents of the National Intelligence Service (SNR), police, and military personnel

Economy

Bujumbura : Faustin Ndikumana calls for the independence of the Burundi Central Bank

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 27, 2025 – The president of the organization Speech and Actions for the Revival of Conscience and Mentality Change (PARCEM), Faustin Ndikumana, launched an urgent

Criminalité

Rumonge : a wave of arrests of traders accused of speculating on Brarudi products

SOS Médias Burundi Rumonge, July 27, 2025 – Law enforcement continues its hunt for speculators in products from the Burundi Brewery Factory (Brarudi) in Burunga province, in the south of

Politic

Senatorial elections in Burundi : the CNDD-FDD wins all seats, the opposition swept aside

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 27, 2025 – Burundi’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) announced the provisional results of the July 23 senatorial elections on Friday. According to its president,

Criminalité

Mahama (Rwanda) : a newborn found abandoned in the savannah, a Burundian teenage girl arrested

SOS Médias Burundi Mahama, July 27, 2025 – A newborn baby was discovered abandoned at dawn on Friday, July 25, in an isolated area of the Mahama refugee camp in

Diplomacy

Burunga : growing tensions around the Muragarazi River between the Burundian and Tanzanian populations

SOS Médias Burundi Burunga, July 25, 2025 – The recent flooding of the Muragarazi River, which marks the border between Burundi and Tanzania, has displaced some Burundian lands into the