2010-03-12
Cranes Set for Burundi CAF Encounter
The Cranes will have to contend with an unfamiliar playing surface when they take on Burundi in the Africa Nations Championships encounter at Prince Louis Rwagasore Stadium in Bujumbura on Sunday. The team of 18 players and five officials leaves for Bujumbura today.2010-03-10
24-Hour Border Operations With DRC, Burundi Soon
Borders with Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will begin to operate on a 24-hour basis this year. 2010-03-11
Cranes Coach Plans Big Burundi Attack
Ideally, the main point why coaches stage build-up games is to gauge the standing of their teams. To try new things out, see what works, and build from it. Certainly, last week's friendly win against Tanzania was quite productive in that regard. 2010-03-09
Cranes Player Arrested
Uganda Cranes goalkeeper Hamza Muwonge is likely to miss Sunday's Championship of African Nations (CHAN) first leg tie against Burundi. 2010-03-08
Manufacturers Should Focus On Global Markets
It's only four months before the second pillar of the EAC Common Markets Protocol is made operational. But there is little change in the local business community's behaviour. This leaves room for aftermath reactions when early preparations would have been more beneficial. 2010-03-05
Carriers Form Continent's First National Infrastructure Consortium to Develop Fibre Backbone
One of Africa's smallest countries is pioneering the use of a carriers' consortium to develop its national fibre backbone and international links with help from the World Bank. Burundi Backbone Systems will oversee the development of a 1,200 kms backbone and several new international fibre links connecting the country to its neighbours in the next 18 months. 2010-03-05
Supporting the Electoral Process
After more than a decade of warfare, Burundi has entrusted the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI in French) with the delicate task of organizing the country's second peacetime general. 2010-03-04
Tensions High in Run-Up to Elections
As Burundi approaches elections designed to cap the country's democratic transition after years of civil conflict, there is growing concern about worsening security and limits to political freedom. 2010-03-05
Ensuring Credible Elections
Burundi has made much progress in leaving its civil war behind, but tensions are rising ahead of elections. They could escalate dangerously in coming months, ruining the electoral process's credibility and endangering a fragile democracy and, ultimately, many gains of the peace process. 2010-03-05
Monetary Union Needed
Various stakeholders met in Arusha, Tanzania, recently to consider a road map to establishment of the East African Monetary Union. They say unity is strength. 2010-03-05
Cranes' Win for Bududa Victims
The national senior soccer team, The Cranes, has dedicated their win against Tanzania to the landslide victims in the eastern district of Bududa. The Cranes beat Tanzania 3-2 in an away international friendly in the lakeside town of Mwanza Wednesday. 2010-02-24
'How Can I Tell my Children There is Nothing to Eat for a Day or Two?'
Jacqueline Kabagirwa, 35, lives in the northern Burundi commune of Busoni but because of failed harvests following a drought, she commutes to neighbouring Rwanda, where a day's work in the fields earns her just enough to feed her family. She tells IRIN of her experience: 2010-02-23
Drought Leaves Thousands Needing Food Aid
Failed rains in northern Burundi have left tens of thousands of people needing food aid and prompted many to seek work in neighbouring Rwanda to earn enough to feed their families. 2010-02-16
Rwanda, Burundi Elections to Upset Common Market Plans
The forthcoming elections in Burundi and Rwanda could throw implementation of the Common Market into disarray as they will interfere with first, the protocol's ratification and second, its operation, experts warn. 2010-02-16
UMA eyes Burundi Market
UGANDAN manufacturers have been urged to take advantage of the East African common market to promote their products rather than concentrating on the small and uncompetitive local market. 2010-02-16
Country Braces for Influx of Burundians Fleeing Famine
Rwanda will be on the alert to deal with a possible influx of refugees from Burundi reported to be fleeing from a famine that has hit the Northern part of the country. 2010-02-15
Burundi Denies Pulling Out Peacekeepers
The Burundian contingent serving in the African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) will stay in Mogadishu until it restores peace and stability and would not be deterred by the insurgent attacks, says Burundian defense ministry. 2010-02-09
Mtupili Off for ITF/CAT in Burundi
Tanzania national tennis players Sebastian Mtupili and Rehema Athumani leave today for Bujumbura, Burundi ahead of the ITF/CAT Prize Money Circuit tennis Championship. 2010-02-05
Woman Fighters Pick Up the Pieces
By age 15, Annonciata Nduwimana was an accomplished fighter for Burundi's opposition Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) and knew how to kill in battle. |
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