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Guinea-Bissau is planning to inaugurate a consulate in Moroccan Sahara, Le360.ma reports citing sources. The sources did not elaborate on the date but the move will bolster the international support for the kingdom’s sovereignty over the disputed territory and its political settlement plan submitted to the United Nations. Algeria has been backing the separatist movement […]
In Burundi, after the death of President Pierre Nkurunziza earlier last week, the Constitutional Court had to choose between an interim president, namely the Speaker of the National Assembly, in accordance with article 121 of the Constitution, or an interpretation of the Constitution that allows for the immediate induction of the elected president. The suspense […]
Outgoing President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died of a heart attack, the government announced in a statement Tuesday. President Nkurunziza was admitted to hospital on Saturday after feeling unwell. His condition then improved but on Monday he had a cardiac failure. “Immediate resuscitation was undertaken by a multidisciplinary team of doctors for […]
Burundi’s biggest stockbroker, Jackon Simbananiye, better known as Kirahwata, was assassinated less than a week before presidential elections. Jackon Simbananiye was abducted Wednesday evening as he was coming out of a sauna in Bujumbura and his body, still bearing marks and a rope around his neck, was found Thursday morning, May 14, lying in a […]
Djibouti and Burundi are the latest in a series of African countries that opened consular services in the Sahara in support of Morocco’s sovereignty over its south. With the opening Friday of Djibouti’s consulate in Dakhla and Burundi’s representation in Laayoune, the two African states were on the footsteps of the Comoros, Sao Tome […]
Burundi opened on Friday a Consulate General in the city of Laayoune, becoming the sixth diplomatic representation in the capital of Moroccan Sahara in less than three months, after Comoros Islands, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Central Africa Republic, and Côte d’Ivoire. The new diplomatic mission was inaugurated by Burundi’s foreign minister Ezechiel Nibigrira and […]
The Burundian government said on Tuesday it had killed at least 22 “wrongdoers” in what it described as violence linked to upcoming presidential election scheduled for May. “Wrongdoers took advantage of this electoral period thinking people are distracted,” police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye said on the state broadcaster RTNB. “The population should remain calm because security […]
Burundi’s main opposition party, the National Congress for Liberty, known by its French acronym CNL, on Sunday picked the current chairman of the National Assembly, Agathon Rwasa, as its candidate in the presidential election in May. The 65-year-old candidate fought in Burundi’s civil war, as did current President Pierre Nkurunziza. “As we are […]
Burundi’s ruling party has named its secretary general, Maj Gen Evariste Ndayishimiye, as its presidential candidate in elections in May, to succeed outgoing Pierre Nkurunziza. Earlier this month, Pierre Nkurunziza, a Hutu former rebel leader and incumbent president announced that he would not run for another term. The parliament last week voted to pay him […]
Lawmakers in Burundi on Wednesday approved legislation that will effectively hand outgoing president Pierre Nkurunziza a retirement package. According to the legislation, the package includes a one-time payment of one billion Burundian francs, a luxury villa built with public funds in the location of his choice within five years and benefits equivalent to those of […]