By Emma Laura N. Kisa on June 29, 2015
African Union, Ban Ki-moon, Burundi, Burundi Crisis, Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, elections, Pie Ntavyohanyuma
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As election day dawns in Burundi conflict still rages with the head of Burundi’s parliament, Pie Ntavyohanyuma, fleeing the country on the eve of the key elections denouncing the president’s “illegal” third term bid. After months of conflict and over 70 deaths – the latest being three people killed in gunfire and grenade blast on […]
By Isaac Senabulya on June 3, 2015
Burundi Crisis, EAC heads, Hon. Alain Nyamitwe, Minister for East African Community, Minister of External and International Cooperation representing the Republic of Burundi and Hon. Valentine Rugwabiza, President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of the United Republic of Tanzania, President Uhuru Kenyatta of the Republic of Kenya, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of the Republic of Uganda
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East African Heads of State called for the postponement of the elections in Burundi for a period not less than one and a half months and appealed to institutions in Burundi including parliament to facilitate this postponement. In a joint communiqué issued at the end of an emergency summit on the Burundi situation held at […]
