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The granting of assent to the media law is a severe blow to freedom of expression in Burundi. ARTICLE 19 finds the media law to violate international standards on freedom of expression and pose a severe threat to press freedom in the country. "This law will have a devastating impact on press freedom in Burundi. There has been a long
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Bujumbura - For the crowded and grossly impoverished country of Burundi, struggling to rebuild after decades of unrest and war, land is one of the most emotive issues of all. Now as refugees return home to swell the already overpopulated central African country, the question of who owns property that changed hands during long years of war is raising tensions
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Bujumbura - Two people were killed when a bus carrying 30 passengers was ambushed by armed men believed to be ex-rebels near Burundi's capital Bujumbura, officials said on Sunday. The bus was attacked on Saturday near Gatumba on the outskirts of Bujumbura and close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local government official, Jean-Marie Mutabazi, told
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Bujumbura — The international donor community is showing signs of renewed interest in Burundi's research and development (R&D), with a Belgian initiative aiming to rebuild human capacity and research facilities in a major agricultural sciences institute. The Burundi civil war brought research activities across the country to a standstill when it broke out in 1993, according to Nkurunziza Gelase a
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Bujumbura - Burundi lawmakers have approved a draft media law that forces journalists to reveal sources, threatens reporters with financial penalties and bans news about the local currency. Lawmakers say it will protect Burundi leaders and citizens but local media call it an attack on press freedom in a central African nation recovering from more than a decade of civil
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I don't know much about nightlife. Not in Belgium, not in Africa. Least of all do I know about nightlife in Rumonge, Burundi. But last week I was hanging around there with a pal from Belgium and we wanted to have a pint or two on Friday evening. It took us about an hour to find a spot with the
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Bujumbura — When Kieran Holmes was appointed to overhaul Burundi's corrupt tax system, he set exams for more than 2,000 job applicants and his team marked the papers in his basement: he was determined the process would be squeaky clean. The 59-year-old Irishman then "smashed every wall in sight" at the tax headquarters in Burundi's capital Bujumbura. He wanted to
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Former Burundi president Pierre Buyoya was on Thursday named as the African Union's High Representative for Mali and the Sahel. The two-time president will work with an AU mission soon to open in Bamako with the aim of helping the country out of a crisis that has seen a vast swathe of the north fall under the control of Islamists
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A Burundian court sentenced a journalist and 13 others to life in prison on terrorism charges Wednesday for a November attack launched from across the Tanzanian border, a ruling criticised by media watchdogs. The sentence against journalist Hassan Ruvakuki, who works for French radio station RFI's Swahili service and local broadcaster Bonesha FM, is "startling" and "makes a mockery of
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Bujumbura - The Burundian army has executed a former spy chief who was believed to head a new rebel group and was captured by troops in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, a rights group said on Wednesday. "Jean-Petit Nduwimana was arrested in the Uvira region (in eastern DRC) in early May and handed over to the Burundian army," Pierre
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FIFA has appointed the first woman to its executive committee on Tuesday, as world football's governing body bids to restore its image after a series of corruption scandals. Lydia Nsekera, president of the Burundi Football Association, has been co-opted onto the executive committee and will be formally installed at the FIFA Congress in Budapest on Friday, FIFA said in a
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Bujumbura - Villagers in northeast Burundi hacked to death a woman accused of witchcraft and five members of her family, including a baby and two other children, local authorities said on Sunday. On Saturday "a group of people attacked the home of an old woman called Marthe Kabatesi in the Bwambarangwe district," said Reverien Nzigamasabo, govenor of Kirundo province where
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An armed gang kidnapped, killed and dismembered an albino girl in what was Burundi's 18th such slaying in less than four years, officials said Sunday. People with albinism, a genetic condition that limits or prevents entirely the production of body pigment, have long been the target of discrimination in several African countries. Beliefs attributing albinos special powers exist in the
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Bujumbura — Tension is mounting on Burundi's political scene. Opposition parties continue to contest results of the 2010 presidential elections and recently condemned a series of laws seen as a government control tactic. Meanwhile, civil society just wants some democracy. Burundi currently has 44 political parties for a population estimated at 8.5 million. The political parties that withdrew from the
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Bujumbura — Today in Bujumbura, strikers intend to respond to the call made last Friday by trade union confederations and Burundi's civil society that urged the government to find solutions to the rising prices of basic commodities and the high cost of living. "It's better for someone to lose a day's wage, than to labour all his life," says Innocent
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Bujumbura — At least 2,000 people displaced by recent torrential rains in the area of Gatumba, on the outskirts of Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, need food and shelter, say officials. The rains destroyed at least 400 houses and there are fears of further damage in the worst-affected Kinyinya, Mushasha and Muyange areas amid ongoing rains. "They [the houses] are surrounded by
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Bujumbura - A Burundian anti-graft activist detained two weeks ago for criticising the justice minister over alleged corruption was freed on Tuesday. "I am happy to be freed from prison where I spent two weeks for no reason, because all that I said is true and has been spoken about by several senior officials in the country," said Faustin Ndikumana.
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The European Union delegation in Burundi has expressed "concern" over multiple violations of human rights and justice in the small central African country. A spate of extrajudicial killings is "intolerable", EU ambassador in Burundi Stephane de Loecker said late Friday after a six-hour meeting with government ministers and other European ambassadors. "We made very clear our view," Loecker said, adding
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Bujumbura - Burundi police have detained an anti-graft activist who criticised the country's justice minister over corruption in the judiciary, where candidates for jobs were expected to pay bribes. Faustin Ndikumana was arrested late on Tuesday and told reporters before being taken to Bujumbura's Mpimba prison that his arrest had come after a complaint by Justice Minister Pascal Barandaiye. In
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Bujumbura - Burundi denied on Saturday that it had asked for an exiled Burundian opposition leader to be arrested in Tanzania and extradited to face murder charges. "As far as I know the Burundian government did not demand that Alexis Sinduhije be arrested," government spokesperson Philippe Nzobonariba told AFP. Sinduhije's lawyer had told AFP that he was detained in Tanzania's
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Radio France Internationale's Swahili correspondent in Burundi goes on trial Thursday, accused of "terrorism" because he reported on a rebel movement that attacked the country from neighbouring Tanzania. Twenty-two other people are in the dock in Burundi's first terrorist trial. Hassan Ruvakuki, who is the Burundi correspondent for RFI's Kiswahili service, is among four people accused of giving the sign
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Bujumbura - The main defendant accused of taking part in the September massacre of at least 37 people in a Burundi bar on Tuesday accused senior police officers of responsibility for the bloodbath. The defendant, Innocent Ngendakuriyo, told judges in his first hearing before the Bujumbura High Court that he was not involved in the killings in Gatumba, near the
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The main defendant accused of taking part in the September massacre of at least 37 people in a Burundi bar Tuesday accused senior police officers of responsibility for the bloodbath. The defendant, Innocent Ngendakuriyo, told judges in his first hearing before the Bujumbura High Court that he was not involved in the killings in Gatumba, near the capital Bujumbura, and
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Bujumbura - Two men were arrested in Burundi on Monday over the murder of a Croatian nun and an Italian volunteer in an attack on a religious mission in the central African nation, a police official said. "The culprits of the double murder were arrested around 13:00 (11:00 GMT), they are aged 20 and 24 years and we are sure
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Bujumbura - Gunmen killed a Croatian nun and an Italian doctor who were working in a psychiatric clinic in northern Burundi, the head of the clinic said on Monday. Although the landlocked central African nation has been plagued by rampant insecurity this year, the killings on Sunday night in the northern district of Kiremba, is the first targeting foreign aid
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