Burundi’s champions Urunani face exclusion from BAL qualifiers over federation debts to FIBA
The sports ministry says it will not pay the national federation’s arrears, leaving Bujumbura’s most successful club twelve days from a qualifying…
Year: 2026
Burundi’s banks report cash shortage as savers hoard money
The head of one of the country’s largest banks said businesses are keeping cash at home for fear they will not be…
Burundi’s MPs condemn chaotic accounts at state bus company OTRACO
An audit found unpaid bills worth more than a billion francs, some of them owed by people who have died and by…
Burundi says Kenya-based traffickers are sending its citizens to Iraq and Afghanistan
The foreign minister told lawmakers that Burundians who leave through these networks are almost impossible to help when they get into trouble,…
Burundi drafts El Niño response plan as forecasters warn of heavy rains
Officials will meet in Ngozi next week to write a national operational plan, but residents of flood-prone Gatumba say they have yet…
Burundi weighs $1.8 Million plan to bring chimpanzees home from Kenya
Twenty chimpanzees sent to Kenya during Burundi’s civil war could return to a new sanctuary at Kigwena, but officials say the costly…
Burundi’s Ndayishimiye revokes ambassadorial rank of former AU Official Fred Gateretse-Ngoga
The presidential decision strips the veteran peace and security specialist of a title held since 2014, following months of increasingly public disputes…
Burundi removes Espérance Ndayizeye from Media Regulator
President Évariste Ndayishimiye has replaced the CNC chairwoman as a council member after two years marked by disputes over election coverage, fuel-shortage…
Vital’O humbled 5-0 by Vision FC as ten men collapse at Intwari
Burundi's most decorated club apologises to supporters after a heavy defeat on matchday five of the Primus Ligue
Burundi’s central bank faces questions over €815,000 theft and year-long delay
Anti-corruption campaigners want to know who produced documents bearing a state utility’s name and why a Polish request for help took 14…