Burundi clamps down on two publications
(NDIMA/IFEX) – According to NDIMA, on 25 March 1998, authorities in Burundi seized copies of a pro-opposition newspaper and closed down the offices of a second publication. Police seized copies of “L’Aube de la democratie” (The Dawn of Democracy), published in the capital by the mostly Hutu Frodebu party, for the first time in two […]
Reuter correspondent briefly detained and questioned; “l’Eclaireur” journalist remains in preventive custody
Christian Jennings, the Reuter news agency correspondent in Burundi, was arrested on the morning of 18 June 1996 and questioned for a few hours. The British journalist was arrested at his hotel and taken to the police station (the gendarmerie), where he was asked questions about his news reports. Jennings, who says he was not […]
Journalist Richard Niyongere threatened with arrest
Journalist Richard Niyongere has been accused by the Minister of Defence of being an “agent” for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and of using his employment at the news agency, Agence burundaise de presse (ABP), as a cover. On 29 April 1996, Niyongere reported on the slaying of eight members of a family in the Bujumbura […]
Radio director Pamphile Simbizi killed
Pamphile Simbizi, director of the French section of the second channel of the national radio of Burundi, was stabbed to death on the morning of 7 June 1995 in the hills of the Gasenyi district of Bujumbura, not far from the Kamenge district where violent fighting was taking place. Pamphile Simbizi was an experienced and […]
Journalist Francis Vincent and interpreter killed in ambush; cameraman wounded; driver fatally wounded
Francis Vincent, a South African journalist and the Johannesburg bureau chief for the international British television news agency Worldwide Television News (WTN), along with his interpreter, a Burundian student from the Ngagara district, were killed on 6 April 1995 at approximately 18:00 hours. They were the victims of an ambush 12 kilometres north of the […]