Ndayishimiye started his political life in Parti pour la libération du peuple hutu a party openly dedicated to Hutu power but in the mid-1990s he joined the marginally more moderate Forces de la défense de la démocratie (FDD) which was then the armed wing of the Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD) the political party Léonard Nyangoma formed when he broke away from the Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi (Frodebu)...
Talks have started between the Alliance démocratique pour le changement-Ikibiri led by Ngendakumana which includes Frodebu Sinduhije's MSD ex-President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza's Parti pour le redressement national and Léonard Nyangoma's Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie and Rwasa's wing of the FNL Nditije's supporters and the dissident Frodebu-Nyakuri wing led by Jean Minani (AC Vol 39 No 8 Secrets and splits)...
It includes the Alliance démocratique pour le renouveau-Urunani Rw’Imvugakuri led by former Vice-President Alice Nzomukunda; Conseil des Patriotes of Anicet Niyonkuru; Léonard Nyangoma’s Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie (not to be confused with the ruling CNDD-FDD AC Vol 50 No 18); the tiny FEDS-Sangira of Gervais Niyongabo; Front pour la démocratie au Burundi led by Léonce Ngendakumana; Mouvement pour la solidarité et la démocratie led by Alexis Sinduhije; ex-President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza’s Parti pour le redressement national; Parti indépendant des travailleurs led by Nicéphore Ndimurukundo; Aloys Baricako’s Parti pour la paix la démocratie la réconciliation et la reconstruction; Rassemblement des démocrates pour le développement au Burundi under Jean de Dieu Mutabazi; and Union pour la paix et le développement-Zigamibanga under Zedi Feruzi...
Maingain also represents the Alliance des démocrates pour le changement au Burundi (ADC-Ikibiri) coalition which groups the MSD Léonard Nyangoma’s CNDD Léonce Ngendakumana’s Front pour la démocratie au Burundi (Frodebu) and the Union pour le progrès et le développement (UPD)...
Munyembabazi is Secretary General of the small Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD) party whose leader former rebel chief Léonard Nyangoma has been in exile since the 2010 elections...
The article accused Rwasa and Léonard Nyangoma the original CNDD’s former leader (now a fugitive) of being behind the trouble...
From the Hutu side the communiqué is signed by Agathon Rwasa of the former guerrilla Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL); by former Interior Minister Léonard Nyangoma of the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD); and by the Front pour la Libération Nationale (Frolina)...
The main opposition parties are the Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi (Frodebu - 25 members of parliament mainly Hutu); the Union pour le Progrès National (Uprona - ten MPs mainly Tutsi) and Léonard Nyangoma's Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD - 4 MPs)...
Vol 48 No 22 |
- GREAT LAKES
One is a former Interior Minister and MP Léonard Nyangoma of the CNDD (from which the CNDD-FDD had split); the other is a CNDD-FDD dissident Mathias Basabose who has been expelled from parliament...
One is a former Interior Minister and MP Léonard Nyangoma of the CNDD (from which the CNDD-FDD had split); the other is a CNDD-FDD dissident Mathias Basabose who has been expelled from parliament...
Léonard Nyangoma leader of the Hutu opposition CNDD party is in hiding his parliamentary immunity lifted...