The government has sent its forces and members of the ruling civil youth party on a clandestine mission to fight armed Burundian opposition groups in neighbouring DRC, with the Burundi Human Rights Initiative (BHRI) showing its concern

As one of the 20 most vulnerable countries to climate change, with climate-induced disasters accounting for nearly 90% of internal displacements, Burundi is regularly hit by a range of imminent hazards as well as slower-onset climate events

Burundi has the world's only capital city in the world powered 100% by solar energy during the daytime, thank to the recent expansion of the solar power plant at Mirambi Hill, the first utility-scale solar plant in the country

Renovation work on the port of Bujumbura kicked off on 17 August with an inauguration ceremony attended by the Burundian authorities and the project's financial partners, the European Union and the African Development Bank Group

Croatian police are still searching for the 10 young Burundi handball players who disappeared before a world championship match in Croatia