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This is a list of public holidays in Burundi.

Date	English Name	Comments
January 1	New Year's Day
February 5	Unity Day	Intended to help reconcile ethnic differences between the Tutsi and the Hutu.
April 6	Ntaryamira Day	Marks the anniversary of President Ntaryamira's death in 1994.
May 1	Labour Day	International Workers' Day
April or May 40 days after Easter	Ascension Day
June 8	Nkurunziza Day	Marks the anniversary of President Nkurunziza's death in 2020.
July 1	Independence Day	Independence from Belgium in 1962.
August 15	Assumption Day
October 13	Rwagasore Day	Prince Louis Rwagasore was a nationalist, assassinated in 1961.
October 21	Ndadaye Day	President Melchior Ndadaye's assassination in 1993 sparked the Burundian Civil War
November 1	All Saints' Day
December 25	Christmas Day
1 Shawwal date varies	Eid al-Fitr	This national holiday is the holiest day of the Islamic year; it celebrates Abraham′s ramadan of his son.
10 Dhu al-Hijjah date varies	Eid al-Adha	This national holiday is the holiest day of the Islamic year; it celebrates Abraham′s sacrifice of his son.

Dates of variable holidays

Burundi Business Holidays (in French)
"Unity Day in Burundi in 2021". Office Holidays. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
"President Ntaryamira Day in Burundi in 2021". Office Holidays. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
"President Nkurunziza Day in Burundi in 2021". Office Holidays. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
"Independence Day in Burundi in 2021". Office Holidays. Retrieved January 14, 2021.

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Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Western Sahara

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