This powerful application enables you to keep a list of applications that aren’t permitted to make network connections. This publication will be available in French in the first week of July. Readers of this report should bear the fluidity of the situation in mind. In addition, news and other reports were consulted. Research for this report was conducted from 15 – 23 June 2015 and was based on interviews with journalists and other actors in both Burundi and Rwanda.
This desk study on the state of the media in Burundi was commissioned by International Media Support (IMS) for the purposes of providing information to colleagues in the media support sector and to donors so that they may be better informed when devising and deciding on appropriate intervention strategies in the country. Cyprien Ndikumana, Panos Grands Lacs 2. G C Honey, it kills me, the radio silence Em I never saw us here D C In a world where our lips are sealed D Its harder to heal G C When honey it kills me. Similar sectors were marked in red for what used to be the corresponding silence and listening period on 500 KHz between h+15 and h+18 and from h+45 to h+48. There is no strumming pattern for this song yet. Media landscape in Burundi We are in a media blackout. As a visual aide-memoire, a typical clock in a ships radio room (see picture) would have these silence periods marked by shading the sectors from h+00 to h+03 and from h+30 to h+33 in green. Nkurunziza has been in office for two terms since 2005, and a broad array of actors warned that an attempt to seek a third term was unconstitutional and contrary to the spirit of the 2000 Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi that ended a decade of civil war in the country. International Media Support (IMS) Radio silence 8 2. On 26 April, the Burundian authorities banned the independent private radios Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), Bonesha FM and Radio Isanganiro from broadcasting outside Bujumbura. Civil unrest erupted on 26 April in Bujumbura after the ruling CNDD-FDD party elected President Pierre Nkurunziza on 25 April as its candidate for the 26 June presidential election.