The Burundian leader Evarsite Ndayishimiye has driven to Gihanga town in Bubanza Province to convene an impromptu security meeting.
According to his handlers, the President is charing this meeting to assess the security situation at the national level.
In attendance are members of the FDNB Military leadership and the National Police (PNB), the Ministry of Justice and administrative officials have been invited.
Gihanga is a town in the Commune of Gihanga in Bubanza Province in north western Burundi. It is a border province on the frontier with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Red Tabara rebels have repeatedly overwhelmed the Burundi security forces in this area. They regularly cross from DRC and launch deadly attacks in this part of Burundi.
For example last year in October, around 100 combatants wearing Burundian army and police uniforms entered the province and initially took around 20 civilians hostage before releasing them.
On 30 January 2020 Four journalists from the Iwacu group, one of the last independent media still operating in the country, were sentenced to two and a half years in prison for possible attempt to destabilise the internal security of the State yet they were merely carrying out their professional duty to gather information.
On 22 October 2019, they went to the province of Bubanza to cover armed clashes between the Burundian defense forces and members of an armed group reported the same morning; but they were immediately arrested and detained. Their sentencing was denounced by several independent experts from the United Nations.
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