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Jan
24
2024
By The African Mirror
Burundi economy to expand 4.3% in 2024 vs 2.7% last year – IMF

Burundi economy to expand 4.3% in 2024 vs 2.7% last year – IMF

BUSINESS
BURUNDI'S economy is projected to expand 4.3% this year from 2.7% in 2023, helped by improved performance in the agriculture sector, the International Monetary Fund said. With a population of 12 million, Burundi's economy relies heavily on agriculture revenues, especially from tea and coffee. "Growth is projected to accelerate ... supported by strong agricultural production, productive investment, and the ongoing reforms," the fund said in a statement late on Monday. Fuel shortages had hampered economic activity in 2023, the fund said. Burundi's economy is only starting to recover from years of conflict and political upheaval under former leader Pierre Nkurunziza…
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Jan
07
2024
By The African Mirror
US expresses concern after Burundi president says gay people should be stoned

US expresses concern after Burundi president says gay people should be stoned

NEWS
THE United States said that it was troubled by comments from Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye, who last week called on citizens of the small African country to stone gay people. The comments escalated a crackdown on sexual minorities in a nation where LGBT people already face social ostracism and jail terms of up to two years if convicted of same-sex offences. "The United States is deeply troubled by President Ndayishimiye's remarks targeting certain vulnerable and marginalized Burundians," U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement. "We call on all of Burundi's leaders to respect the inherent dignity and inalienable rights,…
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Oct
21
2023
By AVIT NDAYIZIGA, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Meet Coach Belyse, her country’s first-ever woman coach of a top-flight men’s team

Meet Coach Belyse, her country’s first-ever woman coach of a top-flight men’s team

FOOTBALL
“A pregnancy did not prevent me from playing football, I continued playing until I was five months pregnant, but a red card paved my way to a coaching career,” said Belyse Ininahazwe, the first female tactician of a male soccer team in Burundi. Ininahazwe is a 35-year-old mother of one, and the first female head coach of the Association Sportif Inter Star (AS Inter Star), a male football club from Bujumbura, Burundi, founded in 1977. Inter Star is a well-known male soccer team that plays in the Burundi Ligue A, currently known as the Primus Ligue. The league was established…
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Apr
18
2023
By The African Mirror
East Africa’s peace mission in the DRC: why it’s in Burundi’s interest to help

East Africa’s peace mission in the DRC: why it’s in Burundi’s interest to help

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
BURUNDI was the first country to offer troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2022 as part of East Africa’s peace drive after a wave of attacks from the rebel group known as Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23). Burundi shares a 243km border with the DRC. Most of it runs through the Rusizi/Ruzizi River to the north and Lake Tanganyika to the south. It has been described as one of the most porous borders in Africa’s Great Lakes region. This makes it particularly vulnerable to the spillover effects of conflict from one country into the other. Burundi currently…
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Jul
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Bujumbura tops Africa’s fastest growing cities

Bujumbura tops Africa’s fastest growing cities

AFRICITIES
SETH ONYANGO FORMER Burundi capital, Bujumbura is the fastest growing city in Africa, catalysed by rapid urbanisation, population growth and employment opportunities. Consumer and market data portal, Statista projects its population to grow 123 per cent to reach 2.3 million people in 2035. It comes on the back of expanding democratic space under President Evariste Ndayishimiye who took over the reins of the landlocked state in the Great Rift Valley in May 2020. Bujumbura currently has a population of slightly over one million, expected to more than double in the next 14 years. Zinder, Niger, is Africa's second-fastest-growing city. With…
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May
27
2021
By The African Mirror
Two killed in grenade blasts in Burundi

Two killed in grenade blasts in Burundi

NEWS
UNKNOWN assailants set off four grenades in Burundi's capital Bujumbura yesterday, killing two people and wounding several others, police said. One victim died instantly when the grenades went off in three different places as dusk fell, while one assailant was arrested after being wounded by his own grenade. They were the first such explosions in the city since President Evariste Ndayishimiye took office last June, though eight people were killed on May 9 in Muramvya province, about 65 kilometres (40 miles) away when unknown gunmen ambushed several cars. Ndayishimiye, who took office on his predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza's death, has carried…
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May
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Burundi’s parliament passes $870 mln budget for 2021/22

Burundi’s parliament passes $870 mln budget for 2021/22

BUSINESS
BURUNDI’S parliament passed the government's planned budget of 1.7 trillion francs ($869.7 million) for the financial year starting July, up 8% from the expenditure for the current fiscal year. Friday's measure puts priority on areas such as "good governance, public health, agriculture and livestock (and) youth development," in the next fiscal year, the government said in a budget document presented in parliament by Finance Minister Domicien Ndihokubwayo. Ndihokubwayo said 76.4% of the budget would be funded from tax revenues while the rest would be from aid. The economy of the central African nation, which relies on exports of coffee and…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Armed robbers kill eight in Burundi

Armed robbers kill eight in Burundi

NEWS
GUNMEN belonging to a gang of armed robbers shot dead eight people including a senior military officer in an ambush on four cars travelling on a main road in Burundi, police said. The attack occurred late on a road between Bujumbura, the commercial capital of the central African country, and its political capital Gitenga, police said in a Twitter post. Among the dead were a lieutenant colonel and a child he was travelling with. "Eight passengers dead, several injured and property stolen from them," police tweeted. A government worker in the area who did not wish to be named because…
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Oct
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Burundi: 65 organizations call for immediate release of Iwacu journalists

Burundi: 65 organizations call for immediate release of Iwacu journalists

MEDIA FREEDOM
ON the first anniversary of their arrest, 65 organizations call for the immediate and unconditional release of the Iwacu journalists Agnès Ndirubusa, Christine Kamikazi, Egide Harerimana and Térence Mpozenzi who were convicted on charges against state security for simply doing their job. Their continued detention on baseless charges is a stark reminder that, despite a recent change in leadership, the Burundian government has little tolerance for independent journalism and free speech, the organizations said. On 22 October 2019, the four journalists were arrested along with their driver Adolphe Masabarakiza as they went to report on clashes between the security forces and an…
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Sep
18
2020
By The African Mirror
Burundi impunity for abuses continues, says UN report, as another mass grave opened

Burundi impunity for abuses continues, says UN report, as another mass grave opened

NEWS
IMPUNITY for rape, murder and other abuses is still widespread in Burundi despite a change of government, according to a United Nations report. The report comes days after Burundi's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is examining past atrocities and investigating mass graves, issued rare criticism of local leaders in charge during a 1972 massacre. The U.N. report said there had been numerous rights abuses in Burundi connected to elections held in May. The new president, retired general Evariste Ndayishimiye, took power in June. He formerly served as the interior minister. Ndayishimiye has promoted high-ranking military officers involved in human rights…
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