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Former Burundian President Pierre Buyoya is dead. He breathed his last on December 17th at the age of 71.
Details of the cause of his death are scanty but with high suspicion that Buyoya may have succumbed to Covid-19. Another version says the former president died after emergency evacuation from Mali to Paris. He succumbed to illness upon arrival.
Taarifa will keep tracking details of this developing story on the demise of the former Burundi leader, a military man at a rank of Major.
Before his death, Buyoya served as High Representative of the African Union for Mali and the Sahel.
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Pierre Buyoya, the former president of Burundi who twice seized power in military coups and oversaw a prolonged ethnic civil war that killed 300,000 of his countrymen, has died at 71, the government announced on Friday, 18 December.
Buyoya died just two months after being convicted in absentia by a court in Burundi of the 1993 murder of a successor, a killing that triggered more than a decade of ethnic bloodletting.
“The death of former president Pierre Buyoya is confirmed and there is no more doubt, the head of the information and communications division at the office of Burundi’s President Willy Nyamitwe said in a tweet.
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