Uganda businesspeople have been invited to invest in Burundi to benefit more from of the East African Community common market, writes Mark Owor.
The Council of Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL), meeting in Rubavu, has called upon member countries to clear their outstanding contributions so as to reactivate the regional bloc's activities.
Burundi ruling party won an overwhelming victory in the country's parliamentary elections as opposition parties boycotted the vote.
Burundi holds Senate elections on Wednesday. Only the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) and the opposition Union for National Progress (Uprona) will contest the polls. It is the fourth poll organised since May but the results will not be that different from the preceding ones, in which the CNDD-FDD secured landslide victories.
Jeff Lwalanda is determined to shine at his new volleyball club in Burundi after lifting Uganda's KCC and Rwandan side APR to glory.
The coalition of 11 major opposition parties which boycotted July 23 national assembly elections will also boycott elections to the senate on July 28.
Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has asked the African Union (AU) member states to fulfill their pledge to back Uganda and Burundi in the peace-keeping mission in Somalia.
Burundi has been named the most corrupt country in the region, according to the 2010 East African Bribery Index which was launched by Transparency International in Nairobi on Thursday.
Local basketball giants D'Mark Power will withdraw from next month's FIBA Africa Zone V club championship if they fail to secure sponsorship for the week-long event due in Burundi.
The Burundian authorities should release Jean Claude Kavumbagu, a journalist arrested on treason charges on July 17, 2010, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, and Human Rights Watch said today. The arrest violates his right to free expression, the groups said.
Burundian authorities’ arrest on Saturday of journalist Jean-Claude Kavumbagu on treason charges over commentary critical of the country’s security forces is alarming, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. He is being held in Mpimba prison in the capital, Bujumbura.
The spokesman of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage (Sheik Ali Dere), has held press conference at Warshada areas in Mogadishu and claimed the responsibility of the deadly explosions in Kampala, Uganda.
The Union pour le Progrès National (UPRONA), one of the six opposition parties which pulled its candidates out of the presidential election held on June 28 in Burundi, has announced that it will take part in the election of deputies due on July 23.
Al-Shabaab, the strongest radical Islamist group opposing the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia has invited Islamists everywhere to act against the diplomatic missions of Uganda and Burundi.
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza performed another infamous African presidential miracle. He won re-election the gargantuan way.
Increasing human rights violations could undermine Burundi’s electoral process unless the government takes immediate action, Human Rights Watch said today. Leaders of the ruling party and opposition groups should also issue clear instructions to their members that acts of violence will not be tolerated.
As the Common Market Protocol of the East African Community comes into force, the big issue that continues to trouble business people is the multiplicity of domestic taxes they must comply with in every country.
Tanzania yesterday warned the grumbling opposition political party leaders in Burundi to either participate in tomorrow's General Election or risk alienation in the East and Central African region.
Some 3.5 million Burundians go to the polls Monday to elect their president for the next five years, casting their ballots in favour or against the ruling CNDD-FDD candidate Pierre Nkurunziza.
East African leaders have threatened to impose sanctions on Burundi if the country's elections set for Monday occasion violence.
The electoral campaign for Monday's presidential election in Burundi ended Friday with only incumbent president Pierre Nkurunziza running for the vote. All the opposition parties pulled out of the electoral process over poll rigging in municipal elections on May 25.
As the people of the small African nation of Burundi get set to cast their votes in Monday's presidential election, an independent United Nations expert today warned of potential violence and human rights violations, citing a number of recent worrisome developments.
Having pulled out of presidential elections scheduled for 28 June - leaving President Pierre Nkurunziza as the only candidate - an alliance of opposition parties in Burundi have announced they are also boycotting parliamentary elections to be held on 23 July.
The Security Council has urged Burundi's political parties to participate fully in the country's legislative elections next month, and work to ensure the proper conduct of the presidential poll scheduled for Monday, amid reports that the opposition is boycotting the presidential contest.
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