The African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank) has signed on Saturday a $40 Trade Facilitation (AFTRAF) with one of the biggest banks in Burundi, Banque de Credit de Bujumbura (BCB).
The AfTRAF facility will be used to support Burundi's strategic (...)
“There is a famous saying that every Egyptian knows — Egypt is the gift of the Nile. However, the point of my book is that it goes both ways because I want to argue that the Nile is also the gift of Egypt,” says Nezar AlSayyad, author of The Nile: (...)
التقى وزير الخارجية سامح شكري، نظيره البوروندي إزيكيال نيبيجيرا في العاصمة البوروندية بوجمبورا، اليوم الثلاثاء، حيث ظهر الوزيران كل بكمامته، كما ارتدي الوزير البورندي "جاونتي"، وذلك كإجراء احترازي من فيروس كورونا.
وكان وزير الخارجية المصري قد وصل (...)
قال المطران نيقولا أنطونيو، مطران طنطا، والمتحدث الرسمي باسم بطريركية الإسكندرية وسائر أفريقيا للروم الأرثوذكس، إن العمل الرعوي والتبشيري قد أثمر على يد المتروبوليت إينوسنتيوس، مطران بوروندي ورواندا (شرق الكونغو)، للروم الأرثوذكس إلى تنامي أعداد (...)
CAIRO, Sept 29, 2018 (MENA) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh shoukry on Friday met with his counterpart of Burundi Ezechiel Nibigira.
The meeting, held on the sidelines of the 73rd meetings of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, (...)
BUJUMBURA, Burundi, May 12, 2018 (News Wires) — Twenty-six people were killed and seven others wounded in an attack in a rural area of Burundi, the country's security minister said Saturday, calling it the work of a "terrorist group" he did not (...)
By the Gazette Editorial Board
FOR the fifth consecutive day, Saturday, forty seven professors of Al-Azhar University's Faculty of Medicine had been providing multiple medical care services to thousands of people in Chad's eastern region of Wadi (...)
CAIRO, April 18, 2018 (MENA) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri on Wednesday met with Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza before concluding his current visit to Bujumbura, Burundi.
During the meeting, the Egyptian foreign minister conveyed (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry discussed several issues of mutual interest with Pierre Nkurunziza, the president of Burundi, Wednesday, during Shoukry's visit to Bujumbura, where he delivered a message from President Abdel Fattah (...)
CAIRO, April 17, 2018 – The Speaker of the National Assembly of Burundi, Pascal Nyabenda, said that his country totally understands Egypt's water needs and its reliance on the Nile River, confirming that Burundi has always stood by Egypt in its (...)
Burundi will always stand by Egypt in its efforts to preserve its water security, Burundi's President of National Assembly Pascal Nyabenda told Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry during a Tuesday meeting in the Burundian capital Bujumbura.
In (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry headed to the Burundian capital Bujumbura on Tuesday to discuss bilateral relations with officials and ways to strengthen them, as well as to discuss a number of issues of common concern.
The visit (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is set to fly to Burundi on Tuesday to work towards boosting relations between the two countries, a statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Monday.
Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid (...)
Cairo, March 19 (MENA) - Egyptian embassies in all African countries began on Monday the vote counting for the presidential elections.
The vote counting started at all sub-committees in Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Bujumbura, Luanda, N'Djamena, Lusaka, (...)
Nairobi - Grenade attacks on two bars killed at least three people and wounded 27 others in the Burundian capital of Bujumbura, police and hospital sources said on Friday.
Police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye told reporters one person died at the scene (...)
Burundi's environment minister was shot dead in the capital Bujumbura early Sunday, police said, the first assassination of its kind since the country was plunged into political turmoil in 2015.
Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, the country's water, (...)
Egypt said it abstained from a UN Security Council vote to deploy a UN police force to Burundi for fear the resolution would bring the council into confrontation with the country's authorities which has not yet consented to the UN's proposals.
The (...)
Police in Burundi said an army captain and a police brigadier who defected from the security forces have been killed in a gunfight with security forces in the capital.
Police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye said Capt. Idi Omar Bahenda and Brig. Jean (...)
PTA Bank is considering a significant green-field project in Egypt with a specialised partner, but is still in confidential discussions, according to the bank President and CEO Admassu Tadesse.
Tadesse told Daily News Egypt the bank recently (...)
A former senior officer in Burundi's army said that he and other army officers have formed a rebel movement known as the Republican Forces of Burundi to remove President Nkurunziza from power.
The new rebel group's main objective is to protect (...)
Burundi's government on Saturday rejected the African Union's plans to deploy a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to stop escalating violence triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's extended tenure in office, a government spokesman said.
If the (...)
The African Union said on Friday it was preparing to send 5,000 peacekeepers to Burundi to protect civilians caught up in a growing crisis, for the first time using powers to deploy troops to a member country against its will.
Burundi dismissed the (...)
Uganda said Saturday it would resume mediating a peace process in Burundi after worsening violence that has pushed the Central African country close to civil war and led the African Union to propose a peace keeping force.
Burundi slid into crisis in (...)
The African Union, discussing the situation in Burundi, says Africa will "not allow another genocide to take place on its soil".
The UN said it would send a fact-finding mission to Burundi amid fears that violence could spiral into civil war and (...)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Wednesday for urgent talks to avert civil war in Burundi as the central African country defended the actions of its security forces and rejected any idea of stationing foreign troops on its soil.
Ban said (...)