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Disappearance of Jean Bigirimana in Burundi: Nine Years Later, the Tribute of Journalists From Iwacu

One of Burundi's last independent media, IWACU, commemorated on Wednesday 13 July the 9th anniversary of the disappearance of one of its journalists, on 22 July 2016, at the height of the will of late President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term, and which resulted in thousands of deaths, according to local associations, and nearly 500,000 refugees. The newspaper had lost the traces of Jean Bigirimana, while it was on a date with agents o…

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One of Burundi's last independent media, IWACU, commemorated on Wednesday 13 July the 9th anniversary of the disappearance of one of its journalists, on 22 July 2016, at the height of the will of late President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term, and which resulted in thousands of deaths, according to local associations, and nearly 500,000 refugees. The newspaper had lost the traces of Jean Bigirimana, while it was on a date with agents o…

·Paris, France
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IWACU is all the voices of Burundi. Not just political voices. Iwacu is interested in economics, society, justice, health, the environment, culture, sport, in short everything that makes national life. We are opening a new page for the independent print media in Burundi. Read Iwacu, write to us, criticize us, debate, let's build the country's democracy together.

·Burundi
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