Pierre Nkurunziza

Unrest in Burundi has increased massively since President Pierre Nkurunziza's decided to take a third unconstitutional term of office and a coup against him failed in May 2015 just before and his re-election as President the following July...

Dlamini-Zuma was praised for originally taking a courageous stand on President Pierre Nkurunziza's third term and the Burundian political crisis...

How long is the international community likely to want to fund Burundian troops in Somalia at a time when their comrades back home are so actively engaged in suppressing dissent to President Pierre Nkurunziza's increasingly dictatorial rule...

Like comedian Groucho Marx who once declared that he wouldn't want to join any club that would have him as a member Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza South Africa's Jacob Zuma and Gambia's Yahya Jammeh all want to pull their countries out of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...

When a similar AU force was proposed to tackle Burundi's worsening crisis last year President Pierre Nkurunziza flatly refused and the AU backed down...

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza will need to recruit experienced fighters to resist and the likelihood is that FDLR combatants currently at large in the Kivus will be the prime candidates...

President Pierre Nkurunziza called it an invasion force and declared that it would be resisted by force if it tried to cross the border...

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza whose accession to a third term in power defied the calls of regional leaders and the demands of a wave of popular protests responded to the AU's threats by saying he would not allow troops into the country...

He has however stridently criticised Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza's regime accusing it of committing 'massacres'...

The real reason for the UN Security Council's prevarication on the issue in Burundi is that the Chinese government and to a lesser extent the Russian are backing President Pierre Nkurunziza (AC Vol 56 No 14 Ivanhoe rides into the elections)...