Burundi News

On 6 April 1994, Rwandese president Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed in a plane crash.

Since December 2010, it has been extremely hard to get a bus seat from Kigali to Kampala or from Kampala to Kigali due to a surge in the number of passengers across the border.

Burundi police have detained an anti-graft activist who criticised the country's justice minister over corruption in the judiciary, where candidates for jobs were expected to pay bribes.

Burundi celebrated the 21st anniversary of the adoption of its Unity Charter on Monday.

About 700 people, including Police chief Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura, were yesterday awarded national medals for contributing to the liberation of Uganda.

An East African regional government organisation has passed a Bill that would make the manufacture, sale, importation and use of polythene materials, including food packaging, illegal.

By Melody Guyton Butts mbutts@heraldsun.com; 419-6684 DURHAM - When every other American left Rwanda, Carl Wilkens stayed.

Mr Charles Onyango Obbo , a columnist in The East African newspaper has written 900 articles in the paper and recounts the journey made so far.

The EAC Polythene Materials Control Bill, 2011 passed in Uganda parliament by EALA MPs and its now awaits for the region Heads of States assent on it.

The Department for International Development has come under fire from the international development committee for not offering a full explanation for its decision to end bilateral aid to Burundi UN-donated houses near the south-western town of Mutambara, Burundi, where some of the 500,000 refugees who fled the country to escape the bloody 13-year ... (more)

Parliament has been asking questions about Eskom which was contracted to generate electricity which is also the same role Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd is supposed to undertake.

The Bill which sailed through the 3rd Reading late this afternoon, now moves an inch closer to been law of the East Africa Community.

It's the "All-Iowa Reads" book for 2012, and if all of the state's readers would enjoy Pulitzer winner Tracy Kidder's chronicle, we would be, at the very least, a more humble and grateful state.

COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: One of the poorest countries in the world, Burundi is a small francophone, densely populated central African nation bordering Lake Tanganyika, Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It would appear that a Tanzanian, Mr Timothy Alvin Kahoho has a prima facie case against the Secretariat of the East African Community in Arusha.

A court in Burundi has sentenced 16 people to jail terms ranging from three years to life for killing 36 people in a bar, the most violent attack last year in the central African country, a defense lawyer said Saturday.

Jill McAllister, minister of People's Church, is making a difference in people's lives in the tiny east-African country of Burundi, as well as in her local church.

"More than half of the expected harvest was lost in flooding and siltation," Methode Niyongendako, a consultant with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization , said.

"More than half of the expected harvest was lost in flooding and siltation," Methode Niyongendako, a consultant with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization , said.

The East African Community has announced plans to start a review of standards for products in the five meber states of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda.