Stade Nkurunziza Peace Park Complex

Peace Park in Makamba carries the name of the man who first proposed it: the late President Pierre Nkurunziza put the idea forward in 2012, marking fifty years since Burundian independence, and the ground that eventually rose on the Gisenyi hill took his name once complete.

What sets it apart in a country with few venues of this scale is sheer size relative to setting: a capacity in the range of 25,000 to 27,000. The hill itself shapes the place as much as any design choice — Gisenyi rises above the town, and the stadium sits built into that elevation rather than dropped onto flat ground.

Details that would normally round out the picture stay thin here. No record confirms whether the pitch is grass or an artificial surface, and no street address narrows the location beyond the hill itself. What is certain is the timeline: a presidential proposal in the fiftieth-anniversary year.