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Rebecca Kadaga In Bujumbura For EAC Assembly

Kadaga Says Land For Constructing Regional Central Bank Has Been Found

1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, Rt Hon Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has arrived in Bujumbura, Burundi’s capital. She is in Burundi to attend the plenary and standing committees of the Fifth Assembly East African Community. As soon as she arrived in Bujumbura last evening, Kadaga chaired a meeting with Ugandan members of the East African Legislative ...

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Tanzania Seeking Help To Repatriate 120,000 Burundian Refugees

Tanzania Seeking Help To Repatriate 120,000 Burundian Refugees

Tanzanian authorities are seeking for help to repatriate over 120,000 Burundian refugees who currently live in two camps. One of the camps is in western Tanzania’s Kigoma region near the Burundi border. Humanitarians have said that conditions at the camp are better than conditions at home. This comes with allegations by rights groups and the UN that Burundian refugees have ...

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Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza Dies At 55

Pierre Nkurunziza

The president of Burundi His Excellency Pierre Nkurunziza has died at the age of 55 after suffering from cardiac arrest (unexpected loss of heart function), according to the government. In a statement issued by the government, the president was on Saturday rushed to the hospital where he was admitted after feeling unwell. This happened after he had attended a volley ...

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President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi warned against 4th term By UN secretary general

Nkurunziza to step down

A new report by the UN secretary general warns that if Burundi’s president Nkurunziza tries to seek a fourth term it could “plunge the country into an even deeper crisis”.[9] Check also: Burundi Signed To Quit ICC  The UN chief Antonio Guterres’ report to the UN Security Council cites recent comments by President Pierre Nkurunziza that he might pursue a fourth ...

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