News Burundi People: 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 People: 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 People: Burundi Names Head of Ruling Party Militia to Lead State Broadcaster
"The floor is only given to people supporting the ruling party. The opposition is rarely given a chance to talk. So, the situation will remain the same," the journalist said. In March, Burundi's media ...
News Burundi People: Carbon calculator: how taking one flight emits as much as many people do in a year
There are 56 countries where the average person emits less carbon dioxide in a whole year – from Burundi in Africa to Paraguay in South America. But even a relatively short return trip from London to ...
News Burundi People: Afcon 2019: Burundi won't be a walk in the park for Nigeria, says Saido Berahino
Article continues below "The day we qualified, you could see for the first time in the history of Burundi people united together, celebrating together, the whole town was going crazy for two or three ...
News Burundi People: Burundi, the Swallows in War, take flight
When the gunshots rang out around Bujumbura, then Burundi's capital, in 1993, Selemani Ndikumana was 6 years old. He remembers seeing people flee from their houses, their belongings hurriedly piled ...
News Burundi People: How the Athletics Olympic Dividend has helped transform track and field in Burundi | iaaf.org
The Burundi Athletics Federation is proud of the gains it has made thanks to the fund. “People do not always know or realise the financial challenges that some athletics federations like ours face,” ...
News Burundi People: Burundi’s Gael Bigirimana: We’ve got nothing to lose against Nigeria in Egypt
Gael Bigirimana was instrumental to the qualification of Burundi for its maiden appearance at the African Cup of Nations (AFCON), the midfielder believes going to Egypt for their first time would not put them under intense pressure as they have nothing to lose playing against Nigeria, Madagascar and Guinea in Group B of the 2019 AFCON in Egypt.
News Burundi People: Bigirimana: Historic team can help heal Burundi
For people there, there’s been so much blood that’s been shed and so much helplessness that the life’s been sucked out of the country. So often if you come abroad to places like Europe, you mention ...
News Burundi People: Burundi threatens to cut ties with UN envoy: diplomats
Burundi is threatening to cut ties with the UN envoy appointed to the country, ahead of elections next year that the government in Bujumbura insists are an internal matter, according to UN diplomats. The UN Security Council abruptly scrapped a meeting on Burundi scheduled for Tuesday after Burundi'
News Burundi People: Rwanda: Terror Suspect Nsabimana - I Ordered Attacks on Public Infrastructure, Security Personnel
"I have been working with people from the Intelligence in Burundi but to be specific, the government and military were not involved. They were not aware of our clandestine operations. In fact ...
News Burundi People: UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Humanitarian Situation Report - Quarter 1, 2019
English Situation Report on United Republic of Tanzania and 14 other countries about Contributions, Coordination, Children, Persons with Disabilities, Drought, Epidemic and more; published on 24 May 2019 by UNICEF
News Burundi People: Burundi Commissioner: Free Press Should Be Barred From 2020 Poll
"The Burundian people must disassociate themselves from the media that do not support government action." Burundi's independent media were among the most flourishing in the region until the 2015 ...
News Burundi People: Footballer Saido Berahino swore when arrested for...
Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court heard that police were called at around 3am on February 18 to reports of a possible stabbing involving seven people outside the VQ Cafe, in Great Russell Street. The ...
News Burundi People: Saido Berahino said 'this is bullsh*t' when arrested for drink driving, court told
Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court heard that police were called at around 3am on February 18 to reports of a possible stabbing involving seven people outside the VQ Cafe, in Great Russell Street. The ...
News Burundi People: Democratic Republic of Congo troops kill 36 Burundi rebels in east
As you can imagine, more people are reading The Jerusalem Post than ever before ... The FNL is among several ethnic Hutu rebel groups that rose up to fight Burundi's Tutsi-led military government in ...
News Burundi People: Burundi schoolgirls expelled for doodling on President’s image in textbook
But Burundi’s constitutional court ruled that he was eligible because he was picked by parliament, not elected by people, during his first term. Scores died in the violence that marred the 2015 vote. ...
News Burundi People: Burundi pushing for SADC membership
However, Nibigira said Burundi was now stable, following the 2015 political crisis that left almost 1,000 people dead and thousands more displaced. If admitted, Burundi will be the second East ...
