Reports

The Federation's vision is to strive, through voluntary action, for a world of empowered communities, better able to address human suffering and crises with hope, respect for dignity and a concern for equity. Its mission is to improve the…

Since October 2006, forty people have been reported to have been caught cholera and are hospitalised in different hospitals and Health Centres in Bujumbura city and in Bujumbura rural province. The administrative authorities and the provincial health official are trying…

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES Update on seed distributions: The distribution of seeds and tools was concluded over the reporting week which means that the deadlines for the preparation of the agricultural season 2007A were fully met. FAO Emergency Rehabilitation and Coordination Unit,…

(Berlin: 13/10/2006) Warfare and armed conflict has devastating ramifications for the fight against hunger in affected countries. This is one of the central conclusions of a report presented by Deutsche Welthungerhilfe and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on…

The new UN Peace Building Fund (PBF) launched today will help countries emerging from war and put them on the path to peace. Hilary Benn, International Development Secretary, announced the UK's contribution of £30 million ($55 m) over three…

The ICRC focuses its work on four domains: protection, assistance, promoting international humanitarian law, and cooperation with the Burundi Red Cross. The ICRC set up a delegation in Burundi in 1993. Following a serious security incident in 1996 in which…

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES Health, distribution of medical kits: All the medical kits which arrived in Burundi on 16 September were dispatched to the provincial capitals over the reporting week. NGOs active in the health sector provided integral support in this…

HIGHLIGHT European Union and UNICEF provide drugs: In support of decision by the Burundian Government to make healthcare for children under-five years and pregnant women free of charge, 63 tons of medical supplies were received in Burundi on 16 September.…

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES UNICEF assists vulnerable women in Karuzi and Ruyigi: Over the last week of August 2006, UNICEF and the local faith-based association Mother's Union of Gitega distributed Non Food Items kits (including blankets, loincloth, soap, mosquito net, plate and…

(Bujumbura, September 7, 2006) - Burundian state hospitals routinely detain patients who are unable to pay their hospital bills, Human Rights Watch and the Burundian Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons said in a new…