The government is clamping down on elements within its former coalition partner the mainly Tutsi Union pour le progrès national (Uprona) because of their opposition to President Pierre Nkurunziza's attempts to run for a third term of office in July 2015 and alter other parts of the constitution...
The Kinshasa press loudly celebrated the failure of President Pierre Nkurunziza to amend the Burundian constitution at the end of March a move intended to permit him a third term of office...
When President Pierre Nkurunziza dismissed the First Vice-President Bernard Busokoza on 1 February the mainly Tutsi Union pour le progrès national (Uprona) walked out of the government...
President Pierre Nkurunziza and his governing Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie-Forces pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD-FDD) prefer to maintain an appearance of calm...
Tanzania released the Burundian opposition leader Alexis Sinduhije on 24 January in what is widely seen as a serious diplomatic and political setback for the government of President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 12 |
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President Pierre Nkurunziza was in India 17-19 September to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee...
President Pierre Nkurunziza was more cautious...
With the US Ambassador Pamela Slutz he thanked President Pierre Nkurunziza and his Defence Minister Major General Pontien Gaciyubwenge for 1 000 extra troops sent in March taking Amisom’s strength to 9 000 men half of them from Burundi...
The clean sweep by President Pierre Nkurunziza and his Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie-Forces pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD-FDD) at the 2010 elections has failed to dispel fears that violence will increase further...
President Pierre Nkurunziza’s Special Advisor told the press that Burundi would not stand against Egypt on the issue of the Nile waters during a visit to Cairo (AC Vol 51 No 17)...