{Journalist Jean Bigirimana has been missing since 22 July. Two weeks after his disappearance, his colleagues at Iwacu – Burundi’s only independent newspaper – received news that a body had been found in the Mubarazi River outside Bujumbura. Within 40 minutes, a team of Iwacu staff set out to investigate. Three days later they found […]

{Rwanda says it has found opening up its borders to other Africans “extremely beneficial”, with fears of being swamped by foreign nationals having been overblown.} The country in 2011 notably scrapped work permit restrictions for Kenyans and Ugandans wishing to work in there, amid fears that the former would take all consultancy jobs, and Ugandans […]

{The International Organisation of la Francophonie suspended cooperation with Burundi, citing worsening security and the East African nation’s failure to hold inclusive political dialogue to end a yearlong crisis.} The Paris-based group, which was created in 1970 to encourage solidarity between French-speaking nations, announced the decision in a statement on its website. All programmes have […]