[East African] The Burundi National Communication Council (CNC) on Monday lifted a ban on Bonesha radio after dialogue between CNC and media owners early this month.

[New Times] The Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat has announced that resources mobilization is ongoing to fund Akanyaru Multipurpose Water Resources Development project.

[Daily News] BURUNDI and Tanzania revealed a plan to raise $1.9bn for constructing a railway line linking the two countries.

[UN News] An urgent appeal for $222.6 million was made on Tuesday by the UN refugee agency and partners to assist more than 315K Burundian refugees this year.

[UNHCR] UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with 33 partners, is appealing for US$222.6 million to provide much needed humanitarian assistance for over 315,000 Burundian refugees during 2021.

[East African] Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde ended a two-day working tour of Burundi last week as the two countries move to improve their relations.

[East African] Burundi marked unity day last week, a few days after sentencing of the coup plotters of 2015 to life imprisonment.

[East African] Burundi opposition leader Agathon Rwasa has expressed scepticism of President Evariste Ndayishimiye's call for political tolerance by ruling party members.

[IFJ] Burundi's media have faced a serious crackdown and harassment by the authorities since a 2015 crisis when the government of former president Pierre Pierre Nzurunziza provoked the destruction and shut down of several radio and TV stations and fo...

[East African] The United Kingdom has added Rwanda and Burundi to its travel ban red list to prevent the spread of new variants of Covid-19.