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. Five deaths and 35 other cases are reported.https://www.afro.who.int/countries/burundi/news/burundi-investigates-illness-has-caused-five-deaths 31 March – At least 13 people are killed and 57 are injured after explosions at a military ammunition depot in Bujumbura, reportedly caused by an electrical short circuit.
July
19 July – Eight people are killed and nine others injured in a crowd crush at the Senior Technical School of Kamenge in Bujumbura after a wall at an exit gate collapses.
September
30 September – Burundi agrees to accept third country deportees from the United States, who have not been accused of crimes or having terrorist links.
Holidays Source:
1 January – New Year's Day 5 February – Unity Day 6 April – Cyprien Ntaryamira Day 1 May – Labour Day 9 May – Ascension Day 6 June – Eid al-Adha 1 July – Independence Day 15 August – Assumption 13 October – Rwagasore Day 21 October – Ndadaye Day 1 November – All Saints' Day 25 December – Christmas Day
Deaths
26 July – Pié Masumbuko, 94, acting prime minister (1965)
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