Cotonou Agreement: EU and OACPS agree on another one-year extension
Their relationship could only be legally maintained if they were bound by an agreement. As it was impossible to sign the new agreement before 30 Read more
Year: 2022
Remembering the unsung heroes of humanity
The 2015 Burundian government’s violent clamp down on political demonstrations forced hundreds and thousands to seek refuge in neighbouring African nations. Arsène Arakaza was one of the Read more
EU-ACP: Towards a new extension of the Cotonou Agreement?
The Cotonou Agreement is likely to continue to bind the European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States for some months to Read more
Ladeck case: the intelligence service agent to be transferred to Mpimba soon?
According to our sources, Nyangundu will soon be transferred to the central prison of Mpimba. Accused of having beaten up the chief of the imbonerakure Read more
Burundi: A chief-imbonerakure between life and death
He has just spent a week in a coma at the Prince Regent Charles Hospital. The chief of the Imbonerakure in the Kigwati quarter of Read more
ACP-EU: Will the Cotonou Agreement become the Samoa Agreement by June?
Initialled by the chief negotiators two years ago, the post-Cotonou agreement has been slow to be jointly signed by the European Union and the Organisation Read more
Burundi: The reopening of the BBC, what next?
In lifting the sanctions against the British Broadcasting Corporation, the National Communication Council of Burundi gave two main reasons. The recommendation of the President of Read more
DRC into EAC : “It’s a very big event”
President Kaguta Museveni thanks president Félix Tshisekedi for finally bringing the Democratic Republic of Congo into the East African Community. “It’s a very big event”, Read more
Gaetan Zongo appointed Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burundi.
He will soon be appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi. Not surprisingly, the President of the United Nations Human Rights Read more
Burundi: Those other reasons for the revocation of EU sanctions
These reasons are not included in the recent press release of the Council of the European Union, but some of them are among the reasons Read more