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Burundi’s President Ndayishimiye Wins 100% of Seats in National Vote
Morocco World News
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June 16, 2025
Rabat – President Evariste Ndayishimiye’s CNDD-FDD party has secured 100% of the seats in the vote for the national legislative assembly. The election results were announced on Wednesday, June 11, by the electoral commission. This vote has been...
OPINION: The imperative of political hygiene in Kenya
Citizen TV Kenya
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June 16, 2025
Once again we find ourselves campaigning two years too early for a general election. It seems to be the very reality of our country. We live for politics and politicians remain our most venerated influencers and celebrities. Seven elections into...
Immigration Restrictions Mount Against Americans And Legal Residents
Forbes
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People hold U.S. flags while attending their Naturalization Oath ceremony for US citizenship in Los ... More Angeles, California, on May 25, 2022. Americans and lawful permanent residents who want close family members and others to join them in...
Kudos, Iwacu for deep analysis of Burundi’s bizarre election
Media Observer
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June 16, 2025
Thick clouds of happy unease are ominously hanging over Burundi in the wake of the announcement of the results of the country’s parliamentary election. On June 11, 2025, the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), Prosper...
Ugandan Health Ministry states Russian backing essential in stopping Ebola spread
MENAFN
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June 16, 2025
(MENAFN) Uganda successfully contained its recent Ebola outbreak with crucial help from Russian experts, a health official from the country said on Tuesday. Dr. Diana Atwine, permanent secretary at Uganda’s Health Ministry, explained at a...
How AfDB-backed projects anchor Dodoma’s urban, economic rise
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has underscored the significance of major infrastructure projects financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), citing their role in bolstering Tanzania’s economic transformation, regional...
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Why Donald Trump has implemented travel ban as president 'considers adding another 36 countries' to list
LAD Bible
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In case you've been living under a rock, Donald Trump has been making some pretty significant changes in the US since returning to the Oval Office earlier this year, especially when it comes to immigration. One of the 79-year-old's biggest...
Burundian socialite Dabijou accuses Jamal Rohosafi of lying to parents he'll...
TUKO
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June 14, 2025
Jamal Rohosafi sparked relationship rumours with Burundian socialite Dabijou after cosy videos of them emerged online However, she is now accusing the businessman of making fake promises after she travelled to Kenya to see him Jamal was recently...
Trump considers travel ban on another 36 countries after restricting people from 19 nations from entering the US
Daily Mail
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June 17, 2025
President Donald Trump is considering extending his extraordinary travel bans to include another 36 countries. Trump imposed a full ban on nationals from 12 countries, and partial restrictions for visitors from another seven countries earlier this...
Harambee Starlets face Burundi test in Dar
The Standard
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Harambee Starlets players celebrate after beating Tunisia 1-0 in a Women Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Souse, Tunisia on February 26, 2025. [FKF Media] Harambee Starlets midfielder Medina Abubakar is confident Kenya has the quality to emerge...
Cibitoke : PM Ndirakobuca reassures — “Burundi will not return to a single-party system”
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi Cibitoke, June 14, 2025 — While the CNDD-FDD won all the seats in the legislative elections and most seats in district elections of June 5, Burundian Prime Minister Gervais Ndirakobuca ruled out the idea of a return to the...
Burundi : “The legislative elections of shame,” according to Aimé Magera, opposition leader in exile
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 12, 2025 – Burundian opposition leader in exile and international representative of the CNL party, Aimé Magera, gave an exclusive response to SOS Médias Burundi following the announcement of the results of the...
Memory under surveillance : representatives of victims of Buta and Kibimba arrested in Bujumbura
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, June 14, 2025 – André Bizoza and Florence Rutamucero, activists in the Buta and Kibimba killings survivors’ associations, were arrested on Friday, June 13, 2025, at Melchior Ndadaye International Airport, as they were...
Editorial | Travel bans and global sport
The Gleaner
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June 17, 2025
It is probably too late to consider removing the United States as a host of next year’s football World Cup. And in any event, it is unlikely that Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, the governing body of world football, would even contemplate...
Burundi's ruling party wins election as opponents denounce vote rigging
Modern Ghana
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Burundi's ruling party – which has been in power since 2005 – won all the seats in the 5 June legislative elections the country's electoral commission announced, as government opponents decried what they say was a rigged ballot. "Nationally, the...
Burundi’s ruling party CNDD-FDD sweeps parliamentary elections
The Citizen
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Bujumbura. Burundi’s long-dominant party, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy–Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD), has won every seat in the country’s Parliament, according to official results announced on Wednesday, June...
Burundi's ruling party wins every seat in poll as rivals say democracy 'killed'
BBC
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June 12, 2025
The ruling party in Burundi has won all 100 seats in a parliamentary election that the opposition says has "killed" democracy in the central African state. Giving the provisional results for last week's poll, electoral commission head Prosper...
Burundi elections marked by intimidation and absence of opposition: rights group
JURIST
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June 12, 2025
Legislative and local elections held in Burundi on June 5 unfolded in an environment of restricted civic freedoms and a dismantled political opposition, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday. The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI)...
Burundi electral body says ruling party wins all seats in national legislative elections
Xinhua News Agency
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BUJUMBURA, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The Burundian ruling party has won all seats of the future National Assembly, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) has said, citing provisional results of last week's legislative elections. "The...
President Mahama receives credentials from 5 envoys
Business Ghana
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President John Mahama yesterday received the credentials of five new ambassadors to Ghana at the Jubilee House in Accra. They are Vietnam — Bui Quoc Hung; Greece - Athanasios V. Kotsionis; Jamaica High Commissioner — Lincoln George Downer; Tunisia...