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,…
Writer: Jibi Moses Covid-19 (SARS-COV-2) was first reported in China’s Wuhan City in late 2019 and later led to reported cumulative cases of up to 988,737,697 Later on spread throughout the globe like wildfire and by 30th January 2020, World Health Organisation (WHO) had to declare it as a Public health emergency of international concern….
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…
By Avit Ndayiziga In Burundi, as elsewhere, food prices have spiked since the end of 2021. This has led to a double burden of starvation and ill health on the fragile shoulders of displaced and vulnerable individuals living with HIV at the Mafubo site of Zone Maramvya, in rural Bujumbura province. Displaced residents of Mafubo…
