2026 in Burundi

Events in the year 2026 in Burundi.

• President: Évariste Ndayishimiye
• Prime Minister: Gervais Ndirakobuca

• 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]

Source:^[9]

• 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