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“THERE is a say that, educating a woman is equivalent to educating the nation, the same applies to the concept of empowering women, meaning an economically empowered woman is an asset to a whole community,” said Zuwena Senkondo, a Sustainable Communities Superintendent for Barrick Gold Bulyanhulu-

Burundi: Situation Report (4 Jun 2021) Format Underfunding of the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) 2021 negatively impacting response efforts Over 4,800 people have tested positive for COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic BACKGROUND Since the beginning of the rainy season in March 2021, the waters of Lake Tanganyika have been rising steadily, flooding many neighborhoods in the coastal provinces and causing significant property damage and population displacement. The most affected provin...

English News and Press Release on Burundi about Protection and Human Rights; published on 26 May 2021 by HRW

April 25 The ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) announces that then-President Pierre Nkurunziza will be its candidate in June elections, triggering widespread demonstrations in the then-capital, Bujumbura. April 26 The government bans live reporting from the sites of the demonstrations by three popular radio stations – Radio publique africaine (RPA), Radio Isanganiro, and Radio Bonesha FM, suspends their broadcasts outside the c...

End Abusive Prosecutions; Lift Restrictions on Free Speech Burundis President Evariste Ndayishimiye at his inauguration on June 18, 2020. President Ndayishimiye took power two months early after the abrupt death of his predecessor, Pierre Nkurunziza. Burundis President Evariste Ndayishimiye at his inauguration on June 18, 2020. President Ndayishimiye took power two months early after the abrupt death of his predecessor, Pierre Nkurunziza. © 2020 Evrard Ngendak...

Recent flooding from the rising waters of Lake Tanganyika at the port of Bujumbura in Burundi has affected 8,000 families with around 2000 people displaced in lakeside communities --including Bugarama, Kanyenkoko, Muhuta, Nyanza-Lac, Gatumba, Rukaramu, Kibenga, Gisyo and Kabondo in the province of Bujumbura Rural, roughly 12 km outside the city. The details come from an April 25 report by The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). And it appears that the number of peo...

Burundi: Floods and Landslides April 2021 - Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) DREF Operation n° MDRBI018 Format Description of the disaster Lake Tanganyika water level have been rising since February 2021. Heavy rainfall since the start of April has worsened the situation with further rainfall predicted until mid-May. As of 19 April 2021, the level of Lake Tanganyika stood at 776.4 metres above sea level compared to the normal average level of 772.7 metres. From April 12, 2021 in the province of...

Humanitarian situation reports, response plans, news, analyses, evaluations, assessments, maps, infographics and more on Burundi: Floods - Feb 2021

First evidence drug-resistant malaria mutations gaining foothold in Africa, study suggests Conrad Duncan © Provided by The Independent Drug-resistant mutations in a malaria parasite may be gaining a foothold in Africa, according to data from a new study. The research, which has been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, found for the first time that mutations in Plasmodium falciparum parasites in Rwanda were associated with a reduction in the effectiveness of c...

Malaria mutations may be gaining a foothold in Africa, shows new data New data provide the first clinical evidence that drug-resistant mutations in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum may be gaining a foothold in Africa. The study, conducted in Rwanda, is published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal and finds for the first time that the mutations are associated with delayed parasite clearance, as was first shown in South-East Asia when artemisinin-resistance started to emerge. Th...