Daniella Niteka during her presentation at the conference at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute
| © ABIFrom the 18th to the 19th of November 2024, the conference “Burundi in East Africa: Opportunities and challenges“ on the occasion of the 40 year partnership between Baden Wuerttemberg and Burundi took place at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute. During this conference, Daniella Niteka, communication scientist at the University of Burundi, gave an interview for südnordfunk.
The long-standing crisis in Burundi has been accompanied by a crisis in press freedom. The country is only slowly recovering from the consequences of the repression against the media, which reached a peak almost ten years ago. Journalists were forced to flee and media outlets were set on fire. Ahead of the elections scheduled for 2025, media experts are now seeking to strengthen a law on the right to access information and investigative journalism. Daniella Niteka gives her assessment of the situation on südnordfunk.
The article can be listened to and read on the iz3w website.