Auteur/autrice : Eliabu IZODUKIZA

Buke buke bukomeza igihonyi, inkuru ya Karita!

Eliabu IZODUKIZA

Mu Burundi co kimwe n’ahandi kw’isi yose, ubushomeri bw’urwaruka ni kimwe mu ngorane zihanze amareta. Mu Burundi, mu ntumbero yo kugerageza guhangana n’iyo ngorane, urwaruka ruramaze kwijukira ku bwinshi ibijanye no kwitunganiriza imigambi. Abigeme na bo nyene ntibasigaye inyuma, ku buryo hari n’imirimo bijukiye yahora ikorwa n’abagabo gusa. Ikimenyeshamakuru Shikiriza caraganiriye n’umwe muri bo, asanzwe akora umwuga wo kumwa. Awufatanya no kudandaza utundi tuntu ku ruhande. Yemeza ko naho yatanguye bimugoye, ubu yamaze kumira akabuye k’abagabo. Ntakizera akantu kose ku wo bubakanye. Karita Uwimana* ni umukenyezi yubatse, afise abana babiri.…

People with mental diseases: Threats and victims at the same time

Eliabu IZODUKIZA

On 22nd July 2021, two children were stabbed to death by a person known to have mental problems at Kizi in Gasorwe Commune, Muyinga province. Shortly after the incident, people started to question the threat that the society may be faced with when mentally sick people are unsupervised. Let’s review this sensitive issue which jeopardizes population’s health and security. Mentally sick people are seen and met almost everywhere in Bujumbura, the economic capital city of Burundi. Many of them are street beggars. They have no relative or family in the…

Graduated but unemployed: who to blame?

Eliabu IZODUKIZA

Unemployment is an issue for the youth in Burundi. The rate keeps increasing. Reasons include the lack of entrepreneurial experience for young graduates, the content of the academic curricula that doesn’t match the reality of the time and false assumptions over the outcome of studies. Considerable efforts should be put in to tackle unemployment. I recently came across a group of students on their way home. I really had the curiosity to know what they think of school today. They obviously had different points of view. Still, they agreed on…