March 28, 2023 Avatar photoDon Délice Ndikumana

Urunani Basketball Club Dominates New Season Opener with Title Win

  The new 16 teams-format Viva Basketball League opening tournament has been wrapped up with Urunani proving again their domination in Burundian. In fact, a huge gap between teams was undeniably noticed. Ahead of the 2023 VBL season, an opening tournament was organized to give the teams a ground to weigh themselves against others, and […]
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March 19, 2023 Avatar photoPrince Musore

OpenAI’s GPT-4: The Next Level of AI Entrepreneurship… Or so?

  OpenAI, a research organization dedicated to creating and ensuring the safe use of artificial intelligence (AI), has recently released GPT-4, its latest and most advanced language model. GPT-4 is a multimodal system that can process text and image inputs and generate text outputs. It can perform various tasks, such as answering complex questions, understanding […]
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March 16, 2023 Avatar photoGuillaume Muhoza

Increased Burundian Presence in the Fight for DRC Stability

The Burundian army deployed their second contingent to Goma on March 15th and 16th, 2023, to strengthen the forces of East Africa in their fight against armed groups in the region. These additional troops are joining the first contingent of 30 Burundian soldiers who have been operating there since March 5th, 2023. According to Emmanuel […]
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March 12, 2023 Evariste Niyonkuru

A Tale of Opportunity: In Cibitoke, Mushroom Farming Cooperative Prospered in Wake of Rift Valley Epidemic

As a result of the Rift Valley epidemic in mid-2022, a ban on animal slaughter was put in place, prompting the Imbo people – who are big fans of meat – to switch to edible mushrooms. This presented an immense opportunity to COPEJC, a cooperative of young people who specialise in mushroom farming. The Imbo […]
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March 12, 2023 Avatar photoPrince Musore

Reclaiming Burundian Cultural Heritage Through Music, Possible?

Monday 7 March, as the sun blazed down on the bustling city of Bujumbura, something unusual was stirring in the air. It was the sound of Umuduri, a traditional Burundian and Rwandan stringed instrument, echoing through the streets. But it wasn’t just any soloist playing this time. This was something new, something exciting. KdaGr8test had […]
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Business


March 12, 2023 Evariste Niyonkuru

A Tale of Opportunity: In Cibitoke, Mushroom Farming Cooperative Prospered in Wake of Rift Valley Epidemic

As a result of the Rift Valley epidemic in mid-2022, a ban on animal slaughter was put in place, prompting the Imbo people – who are big fans of meat – to switch to edible mushrooms. This presented an immense opportunity to COPEJC, a cooperative of young people who specialise in mushroom farming. The Imbo […]
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March 6, 2023 Avatar photoPrince Musore

Burundi’s Digital Leap: How Starlink’s Satellite Internet Could Change the Game

  Burundi is amongst the African countries set to benefit from Elon Musk’s Starlink technology in 2023. If this actually happens, starlink technology would be a game-changer in Burundi’s Economy as access to reliable internet connections would allow the country to bridge the digital divide, improve economic growth, education, and innovation. Starlink is a satellite […]
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February 24, 2023 Iris News

Gitega Used Electronics Equipment Vendors: “The night has descended upon us by a notch”

  Since the Gitega Province Governor decided to forbid sales of second-handed computers, phones, and accessories, life has not been easy for the vendors of those items. They request authorities to reconsider the decision. They also make a call to authorities to authorities to take into consideration all aspects of an issue before making a […]
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February 2, 2023 Iris News

CREOP-Jeunes’ Fights in Curbing Unemployment

The NGO founded in 2019 commits to rescuing Burundian youth from the nightmare of unemployment. The issue of youth employment arises so  frequently not just in Burundi but also in other corners of the world. It has gone beyond control in Burundi due to the fact the number of young people has skyrocketed and continues […]
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October 25, 2022 Avatar photoGuillaume Muhoza

FTAAf; Why Burundi must speed-up the take-off?

  Adopted by the Burundian Parliament since May 2021, Burundi is still dragging its feet in setting up the parameters that would allow it an effective enjoyment of this market as defended by the CDE Great Lakes in its project of unlocking the potential of Burundian trade via the FTAAf. Why should the country of […]
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October 21, 2022 Avatar photoGuillaume Muhoza

Evariste Ndayishimiye: ”Our vision is to make Burundi an emerging country by 2040.

The President of the Republic of Burundi, Evariste Ndayishimiye, has just given an exclusive interview to the newly created radio channel Kazoza FM which has as its mission the promotion of young people’s capacity to start their own business with its slogan: “Be Your Own Boss”. In this broadcast which lasted around two hours from […]
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Humor


Art & Culture


January 26, 2023 Iris News

Burundian poet and author Eliseus Bamporineza officially launches his collection of poetry on love and romance at United States In Africa – in Nairobi Kenya.

Among high profile attendees were the USIU Vice Chancellor professor Margee Ensign, the Deputy Vice Chancellor, the Dean of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the representative of Burundi diaspora in Kenya. Victor Bol from South Sudan and Anyika Muchesia from Kenya launched their respective books as well. Below is his full speech to […]
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November 8, 2022 Avatar photoGuillaume Muhoza

Between Her Legs, Babe I’m horny! And more poems in Eliseus’ new book

Young Burundian poet based in Kenya, Eliseus Bamporineza has birthed a second poetry book whose poems deliver a message of comfort, hope, courage, and determination to those who love each other amid tribulations of this world or are rejected by their communities because their way of love challenges the status quo. In a country kissing […]
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October 10, 2022 Avatar photoGuillaume Muhoza

Hassane Kouyaté at Buja Sans Tabou: meeting with a theatre legend

The talk, on the evening of 7 October 2022, revolved around the need for Burundian theatre to become professional and the struggle to ensure that it can provide good living conditions for its professionals. From small steps as an actor in1986 to the director of a company that manages 17 theatre festivals around the world, […]
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October 3, 2022 Avatar photoGuillaume Muhoza

Comics and theatre meet in Buja

  Friday 23rd September saw the end of a training workshop on comics named “Heritage and the Past”   The workshop is one of the activities within the project “Abahizi” of Buja Sans Tabou supported by the Swiss Cooperation in Burundi, through the consortium of cultural actors “Ku.Ziko”   This training workshop which took place from September 13th to September 23rd, 2022, allowed the 10 […]
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Science and Technology


OpenAI’s GPT-4: The Next Level of AI Entrepreneurship… Or so?

  OpenAI, a research organization dedicated to creating and ensuring the safe use of artificial intelligence (AI), has recently released GPT-4, its latest and most advanced language model. GPT-4 is a multimodal system that can process text and image inputs and generate text outputs. It can perform various tasks, such as answering complex questions, understanding […]

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