by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 24, 2025 | Lifestyle
Burundi has some of the region’s darkest evenings — grid electricity reaches only a modest share of the population, and businesses that stay open after sunset often do so on diesel. Yet Bujumbura’s lakeside hospitality trade, Gitega’s growing...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 24, 2025 | Property
A power station is celebrated as a machine, but it is delivered as a construction project. That distinction sits at the heart of what happened at Jiji on 24 June 2025, when Burundi inaugurated the 32.5 MW first stage of the Jiji-Mulembwe hydropower scheme. The...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 24, 2025 | Money
Every hydropower plant is two structures at once: a wall of concrete across a river, and a stack of capital on a balance sheet. Burundi inaugurated the first on 24 June 2025, when the 32.5 MW Jiji plant entered operation as the opening stage of the Jiji-Mulembwe...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 24, 2025 | Intellectual
Burundi runs one of the smallest power systems on the continent, yet on 24 June 2025 it did something a chronically supply-short economy rarely manages: it switched on new domestic generation of its own. The Jiji hydropower plant, inaugurated this week, adds 32.5 MW...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 24, 2025 | Economics
Burundi is among the most water-rich countries in the Great Lakes basin, threaded by rivers that fall fast enough to turn turbines. Yet for years its manufacturers have budgeted for diesel, its households have lived with rationing, and its grid has carried one of the...