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After studying at the School of Journalism in Bujumbura, Alexis Sinduhije began his career as a journalist at RTNB in 1991. Following the introduction of a multi-party system in Burundi, he co-founded the weekly newspaper La Semaine. Threatened because of the sensitive topics covered in La Semaine, he fled to Rwanda in 1994. In 1995, he returned to Burundi, where he worked under a pseudonym for the newspaper Le Phare. That same year, the Studio Ijambo project was launched by the NGO Search for Common Ground in Burundi, and Alexis Sinduhije took part in it. After a stay at the Shorenstein Centre on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University in the United States in 1997, Alexis Sinduhije devoted himself to the creation of Radio Publique Africaine, which was launched in 2001. In 2007, he left radio and journalism to found the political party MSD (Movement for Solidarity and Democracy). Since 2017, he has been living in exile in Belgium.
Alexis Sinduhije's story is published in full in the book Histoire(s) vécue(s) du journalisme au Burundi.
In the interview excerpt below, Alexis recounts a defining moment in his career: his interview with Melchior Ndadaye, candidate in the 1993 presidential election.
extrait-Sinduhije-intw Ndadaye.mp3The photos below capture other key moments in Alexis's professional career.
Alexis talks to a survivor of the attack on the Butezi displacement camp (Ruyigi, eastern Burundi) in May 1996
Alexis in Studio Ijambo's newsroom (1996–1997)
Alexis in the newsroom of the young RPA, with Dutch colleagues who financed the installation of new transmitters (2002)
Alexis (in red T-shirt) and colleagues from the RPA search for the body of King Ntare V (Charles Ndizeye, killed on 29 April 1972) in a location identified as a mass grave in Gitega, next to the road leading to Ruyigi (2004)
Alexis at the microphones of the RPA (2002)
(Interview conducted on March 16th, 2024, account validated on January 22nd, 2025)
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