WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 – The World Bank Board of Directors has approved an International Development Association (IDA*) grant of US$15 million to support the Republic of Burundi as it joins a state-of-the-art network of public health laboratories in East Africa.
Berlin – Today in Berlin, German Development Minister Dirk Niebel received Burundi's Minister of External Relations and International Cooperation, Laurent Kavakure, for talks at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The discussion focused on ways in which the capacity of government institutions and the protection of human rights in Burundi can be enhanced. "The impact of the ten-year civil war, which ended as recently as in 2003, can still be felt.
Jackson and his wife Pascasie are now able to cook for themselves and their two small children without spending hours searching for firewood or fear of disagreements with others in their community.
They are one of 700 families who have been learning how to make a fuel efficient stove using free local materials - clay, ashes and dry grasses.
The couple received materials for building a house, along with mosquito nets and hygiene training from Cord. With seeds of maize, peanuts and beans and two hoes, they now also grow their own food.
Au centre-est du Burundi, en province de Karuzi, dans la localité de Bibara, commune Mutumba, à la lisière du parc naturel protégé de la Ruvubu, une communauté réalise de nombreuses activités de sauvegarde de l’environnement. Dans cette conviction, elle est encadrée par l’ONG Réseau Burundi 2000 Plus et a reçu le financement du Programme PNUD – FEM / Microsubventions. Outre la sensibilisation sur la préservation des richesses nationales, l’organisation appuie la population en lui apportant des solutions alternatives pour lutter contre la pauvreté.
Every small town in the countryside of Burundi is teeming with activity. Each day, men and women stream into the roadside market centres most balancing loads on their heads, some pushing bicycles heaving with fresh produce.
Green banana, orange-flesh sweet potatoes, leafy traditional vegetables, tomatoes, and sugarcane, are just some of the produce that are constantly ferried to the markets. Buyers are not in short supply either.
Burundians are forging ahead, casting a dark past aside and avidly working to earn a living.
BALTIMORE, MD, May 7, 2012 — Catholic Relief Services (CRS) will mark the achievements of a 4.5-year, $23.8 million project to fight diseases that could have devastated the critical cassava crop in east and central Africa with an event on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Sierra Leone and Liberia experimented with very different paths to justice – restorative with truth commissions and retributive with the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) trials. How do local communities see this, following the conviction against former Liberian president Charles Taylor two weeks ago?
Bujumbura 08 Mai 2012- La Conférence Internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs (CIRGL) organise la Sixième Session du Comité Régional sur l’Initiative Régionale de lutte contre l’Exploitation Illicite des Ressources Naturelles (CR-IRRN) au sein des Etats membres de la CIRGL. La session aura lieu à Bujumbura du 09 au 10 mai 2012.
A total of 300,000 small arms and light weapons have been smuggled into Uganda and other East African community countries for the last 10 years.
This is as revealed by the executive secretary East Africa Action Network on small arms (EAANSA), Richard Mugisha has revealed.
Mugisha said the importation of illegal small arms was high in East Africa due to the existing arms embargoes which are too easy to break or ignore by different countries.
BUJUMBURA, May 4, 2012 (AFP) - A Burundian rebel chief operating on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in that country and his body handed over to Burundi's army, a military commander said Friday.
Claver Nduwayezu, better known as Carmel or Mukono, is a former commander from the National Liberation Forces rebel movement led by Agathon Rwasa.
Nduwayezu was incorporated into Burundi's regular army after a ceasefire in 2008, but went back into the bush after the 2010 elections that were boycotted by the opposition.
L’ancien chef rebelle burundais Claver Nduwayezu, alias Carmel ou Mukono, a été tué par les forces armées congolaises au Sud-Kivu, indique le site indépendant Iwacu, qui reprend les déclarations du commandant de la Force de défense nationale (Fdn) pour la région ouest, Domitien Kabisa. Celui-ci a précisé que la victime et d’autres bandits s’apprêtaient à tendre une embuscade à un cortège de commerçant sur la route entre Uvira et Bukavu. L’armée congolaise a déjà remis le corps à la Fdn.
BUJUMBURA/ NEW YORK (Publié tel que reçu) – «Le Burundi a fait des progrès en matière de droits de l'homme, mais des défis subsistent en ce qui concerne la lutte contre l'impunité. L'autre véritable test sera la mise en place d'une Commission vérité et réconciliation efficace, indépendante et crédible», a déclaré le Secrétaire-général adjoint aux droits de l'homme, M. Ivan M. Šimonović.
BUJUMBURA/ NEW YORK (2 May 2012) – Burundi is making progress on human rights, but challenges remain in addressing impunity. The other real test will be the establishment of an effective, independent and credible Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonović, has said.
At the conclusion of a three-day visit to the country, 30 April to 2 May, Šimonović said establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to hear cases of past abuses is a vital step for reconciliation and cementing the rule of law.
Kibimba, 03 May 2012 – Announcing the opening of its latest food security project in south-east Burundi, JRS staff stressed its innovative approach dedicated to helping women become protagonists in their own communities.
This project goes much further than previous JRS food security projects in Giteranyi and Giharo in eastern and south-eastern Burundi. It is not simply about increasing the participants' economic welfare; the activities are designed to promote the position of women and girls.
NAIROBI, May 2, 2012 (AFP) - Burundi on Wednesday blocked Human Rights Watch from holding a press conference to release a report on the country's political violence, which it blamed on state agents and armed opposition groups.
The rights group's Africa researcher Carina Tertsakian said the interior ministry ordered the cancellation of the meeting without giving any reason.
"The ministry wrote us a letter saying it was not authorising the press conference, without giving a reason," Tertsakian told AFP.
