[2] The market contains agencies of bus and taxi businesses that take customers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.

[3] In January 2022 traders at the market staged a two-day strike in protest against an increase in rental fees.

[4] In August 2023 traders at the Bujumbura City Market said that rents for most stalls had almost doubled.

[5] Over the years the market had been enlarged, reorganized and made cleaner.

The new rental structure required traders to give a two-month deposit, which would be used when they terminated the contract with two months' notice.