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Author: Lorraine Josiane Manishatse

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Lorraine Josiane Manishatse

Lorraine Josiane Manishatse is a Burundian journalist and researcher in Gender Studies.

  • Members of the Sangwe cooperative of Rugazi Hill, Burundi, collecting goats they bought with their government loan. Credit: Jimbere Magazine.
    BurundiEconomyEditor's PicksPolitics
    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    April 5, 2022
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    The (surprisingly political) cost of a goat in Burundi

    Critics say state-backed farming cooperatives have become a tool for recruiting people into the ruling party and are sowing division. When Jean Niyangabo, 33, returned to ...
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  • Evariste Ndayishimiye inherited an abusive and internationally isolated country in 2020. Credit: Evariste Ndayishimiye.
    BurundiPoliticsTop story
    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    August 6, 2021
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    Burundi: How different is President Ndayishimiye?

    After Nkurunziza’s dark final years, opposition members, journalists and activists note signs of light from the past year, but remain cautious. At his inauguration on 18 ...
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  • People protest against President Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term in 2015. Credit: Igor Rugwiza.
    BurundiPolitics
    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    August 15, 2017
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    Burundi 2020: Is President Nkurunziza already at it again?

    The government claims Burundi is safe, that political disagreements have been resolved, and that the people want term limits removed ahead of 2020. Two years since ...
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  • Politics
    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    July 20, 2015
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    The Political crisis leaves Burundi on the Brink of Economic Collapse – By Lorraine Nkengurutse

    Economic activities have been effectively paralysed in Bujumbura as well as in other parts of the country since demonstrations against president Pierre Nkurunziza started. Violent protests ...
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  • Politics
    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    July 1, 2015
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    Burundi: protesters face increasing danger as parliamentary polls held – By Lorraine Nkengurutse

    Burundi’s parliamentary elections took place on June 29th (despite efforts to delay them) and were boycotted by most opposition parties following claims of fraud, irregularities and ...
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  • Politics
    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    June 18, 2015
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    Is Burundi’s electoral process fatally flawed? – By Lorraine Nkengurutse

    Last month Burundi was plunged in the worst political crisis since the end of the civil war. Elections were held in 2005 and 2010 and whilst ...
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  • Politics
    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    May 27, 2015
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    Burundi: country suffers media black-out after coup attempt – By Lorraine Nkengurutse

    Burundi’s media has been silenced. People no longer walk or sit with have their phone glued to their ear – there is hardly anything left to ...
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