CAPTION: Burundi currency on display in the capital Bujumbura, recently. (File photo). By AgenciesBUJUMBURA – Burundi’s annual inflation rate fell from 45.5% to 10.8% Burundi’s annual inflation rate slowed sharply over the past year, falling from 45.5% in April 2025 to 10.8% in March 2026, according to the International Monetary Fund in a statement released on […]
By Prosper Heri Ngorora GOMA, DR CONGO – Sadiki Patrick, 40, is still grappling with the loss of his 15-year-old daughter, Judith, in Mongbwalu, a mining town in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Judith is one of the latest victims of Ebola as the country battles yet another outbreak, the seventeenth in just […]
CAPTION: AChinese ophthalmologist (L) checking a patient in Bujumbura, Burundi, May 19, 2026. (Chinese medical team to Burundi/Handout via Xinhua) BUJUMBURA, May 20 (Xinhua) — Nearly 300 cataract patients will receive free surgery from Chinese ophthalmologists in collaboration with their Burundian counterparts, officials announced Tuesday at the official launch of the “Walk Towards Light” campaign held […]
By AgenciesKINSHASA – Health officials have raised the alarm over an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the continent’s top public health body, said on Friday that it has recorded 246 suspected Ebola cases and 65 deaths in the […]
CAPTION: Some of Burudian pupils to benefit from the cervical cancer vaccine. (File photo).By AgenciesBUJUMBURA/GENEVA – Under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Health and with the support of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), UNICEF, and the World Health Organization (WHO), Burundi has just launched, on April 29, 2026, the vaccine against the human papillomavirus […]