(Ecofin Agency) - Burundi announces that from October 1, 2018, it will stop the activities of most of the foreign NGOs operating within the national territory. This measure is aimed at forcing them to comply with the regulations.

Gen. Sisas Ntiguriwa (photo), general secretary of the national security council explains to that effect that after a close review of the NGOs operating in the country the council noticed most of them do not comply with the rules in force. 

Indeed, as Libre Afrique reports, Burundi’s 2017 law regulating NGOs activities “places tight controls on finances, imposing administration fees and staff ethnic quota, hiring 60 percent Hutu staff and 40 percent Tutsi staff”.