2026 in Burundi

Decades:	2000s; 2010s; 2020s;
See also:	Other events of 2026; List of years in Burundi

Events in the year 2026 in Burundi.

Incumbents

2 January – Japan sends $625,000 of food aid to Burundi.^[1]
5 January – Eight people are accused of spying for the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.^[2]
6 January –
- A major national scandal is exposed involving billions of francs in misappropriated fertilizer funds.^[3]
- A 70-year-old man is murdered in Bubanza.^[4]
9 January – At least 25 Congolese refugees are reported to have died in a cholera outbreak in Burundi.^[5]

23 February – The Kavimvira border crossing between the DRC and Burundi reopens following a two-month closure caused by M23 offensives.^[6]
26 February – Italian authorities arrest Burundian national Guillaume Harushimana in Parma, in connection with the 2014 murders of three Italian missionary nuns in Bujumbura.^[7]

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.^[8]
30 March - An outbreak of an unknown disease is first reported in Mpanda district. Five deaths and 35 other cases have been reported.^[9]^[10]
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.^[11]

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