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Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye opened the 3rd Edition of the Continental Dialogue on Youth, Peace, and Security, emphasizing the crucial role of education and skills development in empowering Africa's youth. The theme of this year's dialogue, "Strengthening the capacities of African youth for peace, education and enhanced coordination as catalysts for the implementation of...

The East African Business Council (EABC) is calling for partner states to adopt a 35 percent tariff on imported goods outside the East African Community in what it says will help promote and develop regionally manufactured products. “The way to protect our infant industry is to raise the common external tariff for those products...

Burundi launched a major vaccination campaign to combat a growing measles cases, with Dr.

Burundi's Leontine Nzeyimana (Center) during a plenary of the East African Legislative Assembly(EALA) in Arusha (Tanzania) on Monday February 24/2020. PHOTO| Burundi Times The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has this Monday February 24th elected Burundi’s Leontine Nzeyimana as the Chairperson to preside over the Regional Assembly sittings in the absence of the substantive speaker Martin Ngoga.

A parliamentary committee that unearthed the “bad” terms of the Uganda-China’s Exim Bank Entebbe Airport loan agreement has ended its probe, noting that the deal is binding. Joel Ssenyonyi, chairperson of the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises, told The EastAfrican that it is impossible to pull out of the agreement given the dire...

According to a study revealed by the association of repatriated women (AFRABU), of the 30% representation of women in the Burundi’s public institutions as per the constitution the new study revealed that women representation stood at 18 percent. The study was conducted in a course of five years with the primary objective of improving...

Burundi Tanzania borders of Kober-Kabanga and Mugina were earlier this week reopened after the Burundian authority announced that the borders were now operational for travellers from and to Burundi. While addressing the press in Bujumbura, the Permanent Secretary of Burundi’s Health ministry Jean Baptiste Nzorironkankuze said that the borders were operational after the consultation...

As far as fate is concerned, what are the odds that a team finds itself in a David and Goliath affair having to prove that they have what it takes to conquer? Well, ahead of the last Group C ties set for Sunday at the ongoing TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, the debuting...

Every 6 of April Burundi commemorates the assassination of its president Cyprien Ntaryamira who died in a plane crash in Rwanda after attending a regional summit in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.  The president had just completed two months in the office after being appointed by the country’s National Assembly in January 13, 1994.

Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo chambers of commerce met on Tuesday in Bukavu (DRC) in efforts to boost the trade between the two countries.