By Avit Ndayiziga Soccer player Belyse Ininahazwe is paving the way for women players to overcome stereotyping and become top-level coaches in African 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…
By Avit Ndayiziga “The world should not focus on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, instead counting the number of lives saved.” Said the COP27 president’s Youth Envoy, Dr. Omnia El Omrani during COY18 closing ceremonies. “Although I had a long flight, complex check-out at Dubai airport, and a very short time for resting,…
By Avit Ndayiziga Although the entire world is affected by severe heatwaves, extreme weather events, catastrophic deluges, and debilitating droughts, it is however the Global South, especially Africa, that suffers the most from these disastrous consequences. Unfortunately, Africa suffers the most despite contributing just 4 percent of global carbon emissions. Augustin Ngenzirabona, the General Director…
By Avit Ndayiziga Gad Niyomukunzi is a resident of Burundi’s capital, where he turns the plastics choking local rivers into beautiful decorations – and employs 30 full-time workers to help him. It was the fishermen who finally pushed Gad Niyomukunzi to act. He had been noticing the build-up of plastic bottles in streams in the…
By Avit Ndayiziga In the last two years, the spread of HIV/AIDS among young people grew from 7,9 percent in 2020 to 12.3 percent in 2022 which is a 4.4 percent rise according to Burundi’s Conseil National de Lutte contre le Sida (CNLS). “Between 2020 and 2022, HIV/AIDS prevalence among young people between 14 and…
By Avit Ndayiziga Even though HIV/AIDS prevalence has significantly declined on a global scale, stigma and discrimination remain significant obstacles in achieving the 95-95-95 UNAIDS targets aimed at ending HIV as a public health emergency by 2025. This message was echoed by Angeli Achrekar, Deputy Executive Director of the Programme Branch at the Joint United…
By Avit Ndayiziga Traders and consumers in Bujumbura, the economic city of Burundi, are swallowing a bitter pill of price hikes in everything from food to fuel as the government strives to meet its budgetary targets through heavy tax collection. Shumi, a street hawker, relies on daily earnings to sustain his wife and two daughters….
His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Burundi, Evariste Ndayishimiye, and the presidential entourage visited the Huawei Research Centre of Shanghai, Shanghai, China, on 31st July 2023 the mega leading 5.5 G driven ICT Technology and other top-notch emerging technologies. On Monday morning, 31st July 2023, during his visit, Huawei ICT Solutions impressed His…
Technological innovation and the internet are now steering society- as a ubiquitous fulcrum for economic and social development. The continued proliferation of innovative solutions and their involvement in our everyday lives create paradigmatic changes that allow new opportunities by mechanizing, augmenting, and exploring potential among traditional structures and their processes. Different countries in Africa have…
BY AVIT NDAYIZIGA The state budget for this year has soared to BIF 3,923.1 billion, from BIF 2,392.3 billion in 2022-2023. It shows a staggering 65.23% increase in state expenditures compared to the previous year. According to experts, it will lay on consumption rather than investment canals. Burundi recently unveiled its fiscal year 2023/2024 budget,…
