Why Burundi is new destination for adventurous Kenyans

Sought accreditation

It is certain that cooperation in the education sector is going to bloom. A number of students have sought accreditation to the Kenyan education system. Hope University, which started as a college in Karen, Nairobi, before relocating to Bujumbura, has the highest number of Kenyan students. Some, like Allan Muhati, who have been there for a longer period, also speak French and Kirundi.

Burundi will hold elections in 2010 and electoral bodies of EAC partner states plan to support it to come up with free and democratic elections. There is a reawakening among East African states that without strong institutions of democracy, there can never be progress on the economic front.

Under the protocols on good governance, the EAC member states are making their contributions. Uganda may give some technical advice, Tanzania some vehicles, Rwanda has a printing facility for ballot papers and young Kenya’s Interim Independent Electoral Commission could carry the transparent ballot boxes it used in Shinyalu and Bomachoge by-elections.