’ At the time the FDD was led by Pierre Nkurunziza now President of Burundi...
Three days before an NBI ministerial meeting in Addis Ababa on 26-27 June the Egyptian intelligence chief General Omar Suleiman flew to Burundi to try to persuade President Pierre Nkurunziza’s government not to sign...
President Pierre Nkurunziza will be the only candidate in the 28 June presidential elections...
Twelve worried opposition parties got together on 24 March to issue a joint communiqué denouncing a 'macabre plan' by President Pierre Nkurunziza's government in the lead-up to the presidential election due on 28 June (AC Vol 50 No 18)...
With a year to go before presidential parliamentary and local elections President Pierre Nkurunziza is trying to ensure that he and his party win...
The bad news for President Pierre Nkurunziza is that those donors will watch to see that the elections are free and fair...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
President Pierre Nkurunziza’s Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) will very likely win again thanks to some strong-arm behaviour...
The mediators had been divided about how far to push the rebel FNL and how much President Pierre Nkurunziza should concede to re-establish the peace deal...
Vol 49 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
BURUNDI: Governmental paralysis (AC Vol 48 No 16) ended in November when President Pierre Nkurunziza put together a parliamentary majority alongside two big and long established opposition parties the mainly Hutu Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi (Frodebu) and the Union pour le Progrès National (Uprona)...
Burundi with which relations have warmed since President Pierre Nkurunziza's election in 2005 joined the EAC at the same time...