The funeral of the late Burundi president, Pierre Buyoya, will be held in Mali at a date to be announced later, family sources said on Sunday. Buyoya, 71, president of Burundi from 1987 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2003, died on Thursday in Paris, France, after complications from Covid-19. …

By: Rpf Gakwerere As everyone was talking on the death of Burundi’s former President, Major Pierre Buyoya, East Africa also lost a great honourable man, Ezra Bunyenyezi who also succumbed to Covid-19. For clarity, Ezra Bunyenyezi isn’t at all related to Major Chris Bunyenyezi who was brutally assassinated in 1990 …

By: Rpf Gakwerere 1) On 19 October 2020 the Supreme Court of Burundi sentenced the former president, president Pierre Buyoya to life in imprisonment for the 1993 murder of President Melchior Ndadaye. 2) Early November 2020, President Pierre Buyoya privately secures luctrative consultancy contracts with two Organisations in Mali, including …