Sociability Networks in the City of Bujumbura

Abstract

Faced with the profound changes predicting transformations in the mindsets, Bujumbura got a new look that created social networks. The target of this article is to analyze the role and importance of social networks in the everyday life of Bujumbura citizens. The researcher used documentary techniques to inquire through some associations' reports and their statutes what their objective is, aiming to survey how useful networking socially is. Results show that people in Bujumbura are gathered in associations especially according to professions such as driving bicycles (taxi-velo), and women who sew clothes. Results confirm that networking is also operational among people according to the generation whether old people or youth helping one atoner. Results finally attest that, in Bujumbura, in compliance with the law on cooperatives, even though membership in associations is free, social networks formed in cooperatives (Sangwe) are viewed as having a political-eyed target spread on every hill or quarter in the country but their members, though thriving to succeed, are facing many problems even though they are founded by the governmental budget. Social networks are of great importance in Bujumbura in as much as Burundi esteems that development is quickly achieved in group than being alone.

The Child’s Rights to Clothes for Children Residing with Their Mothers in Prison: Case of Mpimba Prison, Burundi

“…However, Figure 3 provides results that illustrate that infants residing with mothers at Mpimba Central Prison have a single kit of clothes that they were wearing when we did this research at an average of 64.5%; 16.1% have two kits; 6.5% have three kits and 12.9% have 4 kits. In as much as every decision taken towards the child her/his best interest is to be promoted first (African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; Convention on the Rights of the Child), their life and their access to pure water and electricity (Sindayigaya & Toyi, 2023a, 2023bToyi & Sindayigaya, 2023) must go along with furnishing them their requisite in clothes (Blanchard et al, 2018;Paynter et al, 2020;Sindayigaya, 2020;Sindayigaya & Nyabenda, 2022). awarded the rejoice of their right to clothes while they reside with their mothers in jail is satisfied only by their parents on the average of 74.2%; their mothers' relatives on average of 12.9%; church members in visits of the prisons on the average of 9.7% and 3.2% by good-doers paying visits to infants in prisons.…”

“…Children's rights are a priority all over the world (Sindayigaya, 2020(Sindayigaya, , 2023b while children are a category of human beings whose best interest is key to the future of humanity (Kilkelly, 2001;Sindayigaya, 2022;Sindayigaya et al, 2016;Van Hout & Mhlanga-Gunda, 2019). In this opinion, children's rights in every category as birth registration (Ebbers, 2020;Sindayigaya, 2023a), education (Mperejimana & Sindayigaya, 2023;Nduwimana & Sindayigaya, 2023a, 2023b, street children phenomena (Daba & Belete, 2020;Sindayigaya, 2022), children residing in prison with their mothers (Nyabenda & Sindayigaya, 2023;Sindayigaya, 2020;Sindayigaya & Nyabenda, 2022), children in refugee camps (Mpabansi, 2023;Ndericimpaye & Sindayigaya, 2023) or children' sociability (Toyi & Sindayigaya, 2023) must be of premier consideration highlighting their best interest.…”

The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, an Instrument Based on African Socio-Cultural Realities: Truth or Utopia?

“…It also depends on the level of responsibility of the actors taking part in it, and on their ability to implement the means of retaliation in the event of non-obedience" (Holcman, 2009: pp. 67-68;Jonya et al, 2023;Sindayigaya, 2024a, 2024b;Sindayigaya and Toyi, 2023a;Toyi and Sindayigaya, 2023). The fact that the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child is required to produce an activity report for the Conference of Heads of State and Government confirms the subordinate relationship between the two institutions.…”