Pierre Nkurunziza

The FNL’s Spokesman Pasteur Habimana says that President Pierre Nkurunziza has not kept his side of the bargain and in particular has not freed some rebel prisoners...

The FNL’s Spokesman Pasteur Habimana says that President Pierre Nkurunziza has not kept his side of the bargain and in particular has not freed some rebel prisoners...

The United Nations expressed 'deep concern' President Pierre Nkurunziza summoned the army commanders and panic spread in the rural district around Bujumbura...

The ECA is becoming an important diplomatic forum and it was Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete who hosted negotiations between Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza and rebel leader Agathon Rwasa in late June...

It remains to be seen whether President Pierre Nkurunziza will acknowledge the widespread popular reaction against Radjabu...

Efforts at national reconciliation are threatened by the arrest and maltreatment of opposition leaders after the government claimed that there was a plot to overthrow it and to assassinate President Pierre Nkurunziza...

Pierre Nkurunziza was elected President last year...

BURUNDI: The Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) swept the board at June's elections placing President Pierre Nkurunziza firmly in charge (AC Vol 46 No 13)...

Following Uganda's push for free primary education in the 1990s (previous schemes had been held back by the strictures of the Bank and Fund) countries such as Kenya and now Burundi under President Pierre Nkurunziza's new government are following suit...

So the CNDD-FDD's Chairman Pierre Nkurunziza is favourite for the presidency - though he may be disqualified since he was convicted of laying anti-personnel mines during the civil war...

Another Hutu front-runner Pierre Nkurunziza leader of the CNDD-FDD also fancies himself for the presidency and wants Ndayizéyé disqualified...