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Burundi's president (Right) with the UN Secretary General's special envoy Michel Kafando in the state house in Bujumbura on June 2017. PHOTO| FILE. The erstwhile Burkinabe president Michel Kafando is set to leave Burundi at the end of November 2019 as his term as a Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General to Burundi comes...

The digital platform is designed to address the information that is needed by women in business and connect them via a custom-built social networking tool that was launched in Kigali, Rwanda on November 21st 2019. PHOTO|FILE. COMESA, East African Community and ECOWAS launched a networking platform to connect 50 million African women in...

Burundi and Rwandan police greeting each other in 2018 at the Ruhwa border post located in Cibitoke province. PHOTO|Burundi Times Burundi government has accused neighboring Rwanda of attacking a military position in Cibitoke province that borders Rwanda. While speaking to the State owned television, Major Emmanuel Gahongano from the defense ministry said that...

Kigali indicated that the deceased were identified as Job Ebindishanga aged 32 and Bosco Tuheirwe 35. PHOTO| FILE Two Ugandans believed to be business men were shot dead in the early morning of November 10th 2019 by the Rwandan police, police in Rwanda said that a group of suspected smugglers crossed inside Rwandan territory in Nyagatare...

With more than 60 years of operation in Burundi, BRARUDI remains the largest brewer and soft beverage company in the territory. PHOTO| BRARUDI The Burundi Bureau of Standards (BBN) expressed concerns over the quality of drinks brewed by the country’s major brewery BRARUDI a French acronym for (Brasseries et Limonaderies du Burundi). In a...

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni (Right) shaking hands with the African Court’s President Sylvain Ore during the fourth Judicial Dialogue in Kampala. PHOTO| Burundi Times While addressing the participants at the fourth African Judicial Dialogue, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni defended death sentence while calling for the African Union to fight oppression and insecurity in the continent.

Armed men used a car and fired at the people who were in the bar and later fled the crime scene PHOTO| FILE. A group of armed men killed three people on Friday night in Burundi’s city Bujumbura while having some drinks in a bar, the bar is located in the city’s neighborhood a few meters...

From Left: Eduardo F. Mac-Gregor Poisot (President of the Inter-Amercan court, Sylvain Ore (president of the African Court) and Angelika Nussberger (vice president of the European Court) after signing the agreement in Uganda on 29.July.2019. PHOTO| Burundi Times The African Court, European and inter-American court of Human Rights signed a memorandum of understanding in efforts to...

According to the local newspaper, the team of journalists presumably arrested in Bubanza were travelling to accomplish an assignment. Four journalists and a driver were arrested in Burundi’s Bubanza province located in the North Western part of the country, the journalists are said to have been travelling to the northern part of the country...

Burundian government says an armed group of 18 heavily armed infiltrated into the country with the aim to carry out a mass killing in neighboring Musigati commune located in Bubanza province. PHOTO| FILE. The Burundian government confirmed at least 14 armed men were killed during an armed confrontation in Bubanza province in the early Tuesday morning,...