News Burundi: Burundi: Young People and Women become a Driving Force of Social Cohesion
Evelyne Ndikumana is a 37-year-old Burundian artist and painter who transforms recycled paper into jewelry and paints postcards. She has been in this line of work for 15 years. In March 2021, she ...
News Burundi: Burundi's president says gay people should be stoned
Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and jail terms of up to two years if convicted of same-sex offences. "If you want to attract a curse to the country, accept homosexuality," Ndayishimiye said in a question and answer session with journalists and the public held in Burundi's east on Friday. Uganda passed a law in May that carries the death se
News Burundi: Burundi's Free Health Care Saves Lives, Faces Fight
The chance of dying during childbirth is far higher in Africa than in industrialized nations. But for pregnant women in the tiny central African country of Burundi, that danger eased this year when the government began offering free medical care.
News Burundi: No Reprieve in Burundi
Good news met bad yesterday in Burundi, as the lawyer Tony Germain Nkina continued to be held in prison despite his recent acquittal, meaning his detention is now illegal. Nkina, a lawyer who ...
News Burundi: Burundi: Children Receive Triple Protection Against Malaria in Cibitoke
Malaria is a major public health issue in Burundi. In this country of around 14 million people, several million cases are reported each year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1,800 malaria-related deaths were recorded in 2023, mainly among children under the age of five.1
News Burundi: Burundi's president says homosexuality 'imported from the West', calls for stoning gays
Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and jail ...
News Burundi: Burundi on the brink: It’s a Jewish Issue
Burundi is a small African country just about the size of Israel that is in danger of descending into a maelstrom of violence and murder. Hundreds have already been shot to death in the capital city, ...
News Burundi: Congolese refugee influx tops 88,000 in Burundi, churches appeal for help
Tens of thousands of Congolese civilians have crossed into Burundi in recent weeks, fleeing a violent offensive by M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has overwhelmed border ...
News Burundi: Japan Donates US$625,000 to WFP for Urgent Food Aid to DRC Refugees in Burundi
With the sudden surge in displaced populations, WFP is now supporting twice as many refugees as before, straining already limited resources.
News Burundi: Burundi army defections show dangerous ethnic divisions
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — As conflict in Burundi escalates along the same ethnic lines that fueled genocide in neighboring Rwanda, Burundi’s president on Wednesday warned the world to stay out, threatening to attack any peacekeepers dispatched by regional countries. In a public address, President Pierre Nkurunziza said a proposed African Union peacekeeping force would violate […]
News Burundi: Thousands fleeing DR Congo violence face 'dire conditions' in Burundi - aid agencies
Meanwhile, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says it is increasing its life-saving aid to over 210,000 of the most vulnerable people displaced by the DR Congo violence. It notes that about half a ...
News Burundi: Burundi ‘risks genocide amid forgotten conflict’
Unrest in Burundi risks spiralling into civil war and genocide, rights groups warned on Tuesday, urging the international community to deploy a peacekeeping force to protect civilians in the country.
News Burundi: Forecasting malaria incidence based on monthly case reports and environmental factors in Karuzi, Burundi, 1997–2003
The objective of this work was to develop a model to predict malaria incidence in an area of unstable transmission by studying the association between environmental variables and disease dynamics. The ...
News Burundi: Karuzi, Burundi
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News Burundi: Financial access to health care in Karuzi, Burundi: a household-survey based performance evaluation
In 2003, Médecins Sans Frontières, the provincial government, and the provincial health authority began a community project to guarantee financial access to primary health care in Karuzi province, ...
News Burundi: Burundi’s Nahimana fall to Asian as the first leg of the ITF World Tour ends at Peponi
• On her way to the final, Nahimana had beaten Kenya top seed Angela Okutoyi 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 in the second round. • Jain qualified for the finals after beating Netherlands’ Alexie Stevens 6-1 ...
News Burundi: In Burundi, fears that next year’s vote will be bloody again
In the town of Rumonge outside the capital, locals described the situation as desperate. Aline Ntakirutimana returned to Burundi last year after fleeing to neighboring Congo in 2015. Most of her ...
News Burundi: Burundi opposition react afta jaguda pipo use poo-poo paint dia office
Burundi main opposition party say jaguda pipo dey plaster poo ... happun on Tuesday night for Gatete, for western Rumonge district. Im say dem no know who put fire for di office and authorities neva ...
