Burundi News

Authorities in Burundi have been holding a journalist since Thursday on broad allegations of breaching national security, according to news reports.

A Burundian television journalist, who has disappeared, is being detained by the country's intelligence services, the Burundian Journalists' Union said on Friday.

People stop to look at the one million handcrafted human bones meant to raise awareness of genocide and mass atrocities in Africa on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON-A million human bones, crafted by artists, students, and educators from around the world were displayed on the National Mall from June 8 until June 10. The bones, made ... (more)

Four months after Bujumbura's key market was razed to the ground, thousands of traders and the economy itself are reeling from the blow.

"We are particularly concerned that the new legislation defines far too broadly both the circumstances under which journalists can be obliged to reveal their sources and the grounds for restricting freedom of expression," the spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , Rupert Colville, told journalists in Geneva.

Egypt will demand Ethiopia stop building a dam on one of the main tributaries of the Nile, a senior government aid says.

"This is a black day for freedom of information in Burundi," Reporters Without Borders said after President Pierre Nkurunziza today promulgated the media law that parliament passed in April.

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has approved a new media law which critics have condemned as an attack on press freedom.

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that the National Communication Council , Burundi's media regulator, has ordered the Iwacu press group to prevent visitors to its website from posting comments for the next 30 days.

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UGANDANS got off to a shaky start in the $10,000 professional event of the Burundi Golf in Bujumbura as Kenyans took charge.

In a bid to ensure food security in East Africa, the East African Legislative Assembly is to discuss bio safety and genetically modified organisms .

THE East African Community states have agreed to harmonise standards used in the manufacture of edible oils.

The east African Community will harmonise the standards of oil seeds and edible oil made within the region to improve the quality of foodstuffs in the trade bloc, officials have said.

With their refugee status being annulled, Rwandans fear what is in store for them if they go back.

WITH Uganda's top amateur golfers Willy Kitatta and Peter Ssendawula in action, bringing the Burundi Open title to Kampala is a realistic expectation.

In 1993, during one of the worst days of the Burundi Civil War, one woman came to the rescue of 25 children and gave them hope for the future.

In an important symbol of America's commitment to an enduring friendship with the Republic of Burundi, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, Dawn M. Liberi, dedicated the new U.S. Embassy in Bujumbura today.

Two people were killed when a bus carrying 30 passengers was ambushed by armed men believed to be former rebels near Burundi's capital Bujumbura, officials said on sunday.