By Avit Ndayiziga From Digital ID systems, Data protection and cybersecurity laws, AI strategies, and universal connectivity, Burundi has embarked on a bold digital journey to redefine governance, business, and daily life. However, insufficient and outdated digital public infrastructure, goods, and related challenges still impede progress, despite initiatives to overcome them. This series takes you inside…
By: Arthur Bizimana State production companies and institutions—Regideso, Isabu, and DPAE—carry out several development activities in Kibira, while local communities illegally exploit forest and mineral resources there. These activities exacerbate deforestation in Kibira. This second story is part of a series of four investigations produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center. “Kibira has become agricultural…
By Avit Ndayiziga Over 56,000 refugees who escaped the ongoing war conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reside in five camps in Burundi. Together with local victims of climatic shocks and those displaced by the rising water levels of Lake Tanganyika, they foresee malnutrition and starvation as the donor cuts by half their…
