Tag: Burundi
Tanzania wants to send refugees on its soil back to their country of origin
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu announced on Monday January 22 her desire to send back to their country of origin the more than 200,000 refugees present on Tanzanian soil. If officially,…
former Prime Minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni sentenced to life imprisonment
Considered number 2 of the CNDD-FDD regime in Burundi, the former Minister of Public Security and then Prime Minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni was sentenced on Friday December 8 to life in…
the secret deployment of soldiers in North Kivu is controversial
Burundi has deployed a battalion in North Kivu as part of the EAC Regional Force, tasked with helping Kinshasa restore peace in eastern DRC, where more than 200 armed groups…
the CNIDH denounces the conditions of detention in the largest police station in Bujumbura
In Burundi, the Independent National Commission for Human Rights (CNIDH), considered by independent civil society and human rights NGOs as very close to power, has just made a splash for…
The UN renews the mandate of its special rapporteur in Burundi to the chagrin of Gitega
Three years after Evariste Ndayishimiye came to power, Burundi emerged from its voluntary isolation and this time hoped that the Human Rights Council would not renew the mandate of the…
Several of the Burundian handball players who had disappeared in Croatia have requested asylum in Belgium
Several of the Burundian handball players who had been missing since their disappearance in Croatia a month ago have been found in Belgium where they have applied for asylum. 2…
DRC and Burundi sign security cooperation agreement
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi signed a defense and security memorandum of understanding on Monday (August 28th) following a 48-hour working visit by Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye…
visit of the President of Burundi with defense and security issues in the background
The President of Burundi began a visit to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on August 27, 2023. Évariste Ndayishimiye is the current president of the East African Community…
DRC: 19 years after the Gatumba massacre in Burundi, the Banyamulenge community has forgotten nothing
On the night of August 13 to 14, 2004, at the Gatumba camp in Burundi, at least 150 Congolese Tutsi refugees from South Kivu, mostly women, children and the elderly,…
the most widespread temptation of the third presidential term
As President Macky Sall prepares to reveal whether he will try for the third presidential term in February 2024, Senegal holds its breath after the violent demonstrations in June 2023.…