2026 in Burundi
overview of Burundi-related events during the year of 2026
Events in the year 2026 in Burundi.
Incumbents
President: Évariste Ndayishimiye
Prime Minister: Gervais Ndirakobuca
Events
January
2 January – Japan sends $625,000 of food aid to Burundi.
5 January – Eight people are accused of spying for the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
6 January –
A major national scandal is exposed involving billions of francs in misappropriated fertilizer funds.
A 70-year-old man is murdered in Bubanza.
9 January – At least 25 Congolese refugees are reported to have died in a cholera outbreak in Burundi.
February
23 February – The Kavimvira border crossing between the DRC and Burundi reopens following a two-month closure caused by M23 offensives.
26 February – Italian authorities arrest Burundian national Guillaume Harushimana in Parma, in connection with the 2014 murders of three Italian missionary nuns in Bujumbura.
March
11 March – Former prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2023 for conspiring against president Ndayishimiye, is granted provisional release from a hospital in Gitega on medical grounds.
30 March - An outbreak of an unknown disease is first reported in Mpanda district.
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