BURUNDI - ENVIRONMENT:    AFTER THE DRYNESS, RAIN…
AGNEWS, PREJUDICE, NY, 26/05/2006

Around the second week of May, nature broke out in Southern Africa.  In Burundi, one came very close to catastrophe there, particularly in the provinces of CIBITOKE, BUBANZA and BURURI.  

Torrential rains caused: zones completely disaster victims; landslides; households without shelter and which very lost; floods; carried houses;  unearthed and destroyed tombs; many drowned people; and of moved…      In short, a total desolation!  

Beyond the risks of natural mother, the human fault east because the consequences show the failure on the level of the management of the territory.   It was heedless of the problems of the Burundians during 40 years. The attitude was criminal!

Come to comfort the victims of this bad weather, one could recognize personalities like:  the President of the Republic; the Special Representative by interim of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Burundi, the Ambassador Nureldin Satti; the home office Minister ; the Public Equipment and Minister for Labour;  the Minister for the Regional planning, Tourism and Environment; Mrs. the President of the National Assembly; and various administrators of the touched communes. A sign moreover, to note a difference in the action, of the current Cabinet. She is interdependent and human with her citizens above all!

A real awakening of the policy was born on the need for modernizing the national management of the territory in order to reduce the various conflicts in this field which are increasingly serious and widespread. Here in fact, conflicts in the ecological and demographic ratios…

AGNEWS 2006