2022 in Burundi

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Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Burundi

• 14 March — Police suspend a joint press conference organized by anti-corruption groups OLUCOME and PARCEM, citing lack of permission.^[1]
• 3 May — At least 30 Burundian peacekeepers are killed and 20 more injured during an al-Shabaab attack at an African Union military base in Lower Shabelle, Somalia.^[2]
• 22 June — The National Assembly enacts a law creating a new reserve force within Burundi’s national defense forces.^[1]
• 7 September — Gervais Ndirakobuca becomes the new prime minister of Burundi, following unanimous approval by the National Assembly.^[3]

• 23 July – Venant Bacinoni, 82, Roman Catholic prelate.^[4]