Catégorie : Health

Ubuzima bubi: Kimwe mu bituma abana baja mw’ibarabara no kunywa ibiyayuramutwe

Diane Kezakimana

Kuja mw’ibarabara canke kunywa ibiyayuramutwe ngo akenshi birashobora gutumwa n’ububabare, amagorwa, agahinda canke ubuzima bubi umuntu arimwo, acamwo canke yabayemwo bikamunanira kubwihanganira canke gutorera umuti ingorane aba afise. Ndereyimana Bienvenu, umwe mubo ivyo vyashikiye, aratwiganira uko vyamugendeye. Ndereyimana Bienvenu ni umusore avuka i Gisozi mu ntara ya Mwaro. Ni umwe kandi mu bana bakuze banywa ibiyayuramutwe ndetse akanihereza amabarabara. Ivyo ngo yabikora abitumwe n’ubuzima bubabaje yavutse yisangamwo akanabukuriramwo. Ariko ngo amaze gushikana imyaka 25, yarahavuye aravavanura burundu n’iyo ngeso yo kunywa ibiyayuramutwe n’aho ingaruka mbi yasigaranye zitabuze nko guhinduka ku…

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…

It’s a farewell to Emelyne Nduwayezu and Mama Badeda, victims of Bujumbura attacks.

Christophe Niyongabo

Women as we know are the most vulnerable humans who are deeply concerned by threats of war and gender based violence. Even more so are women at risk as they are unable to defend and protect themselves against atrocities and do not have the ability to be their own advocates especially when war is waging. The proof: Emelyne Nduwayezu, born in 1991 in Muramvya, is one of the victims of the grenade attacks, which took place in the city center on Tuesday. Her family and friends speak of a « good…

2020, the year of Introverts 

Edgard Irankunda

If this year has made us all wish we could pack our belongings and go back to the last years at least once, then there are some who would still hesitate because they smelt in it something that mysteriously makes it one of its kind and they would not be ready to leave before exploring it despite the thorns all along the way. Since the beginning of 2020, we have witnessed a list of disasters befalling parts of the world or the world itself one after another respectively World War…