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Year: 2026
Everyone to the Airport, we have won something!
When real victories are rare, small ones must become enormous. A plaque becomes national pride, a ribbon-cutting becomes transformation, and basic competence…
Ngozi Market in ashes: One dead and Traders left to face devastating losses
Ngozi’s central market had already burned twice since 2005. On the night of July 9, it burned again. By morning, one trader…
Sergey Lavrov in Burundi as Russia deepens its diplomatic offensive in Africa
Three years after making history as the first Russian foreign minister to visit Burundi, Sergey Lavrov is back in Bujumbura, with trade,…
DRC: C64 tells AU mediator constitutional reform must be dropped
As regional mediation efforts continue, one of Congo's main opposition coalitions argues that the country's crisis cannot be resolved through military diplomacy…
Burundi widens VAT net to businesses with turnover above BIF25mn
Burundi is casting a wider tax net, bringing businesses with annual taxable turnover of 25 million Burundian francs or more into the…
A UN award for Burundi’s first lady’s foundation and the politics beyond the ceremony
A UN award for Burundi's First Lady's foundation has sparked celebration at home. But beyond the official narrative lies a more complex…
Burundi says 300,000 Hutus were killed in 1972 genocide as Truth Commission delivers final report
Holding aloft a report decades in the making, Burundi's chief truth commissioner delivered a stark verdict on Tuesday: the mass killings that…
Who will control Burundi’s electoral machinery in 2027?
Behind the language of inclusiveness and consensus surrounding the newly appointed Provincial Independent Electoral Commissions lies a more troubling question: can bodies…
Burundi set to commission Murembwe hydropower plant, completing the Jiji–Murembwe Energy Project
This week, the commissioning of the 17.5-megawatt Murembwe Hydropower Plant marks the completion of the country's largest energy project in recent history,…