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Burundi Government: President Nkurunziza Dies of Heart Attack

VOA News

   Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has died after suffering what the
   government said was a heart attack.

   The central African nation says Nkurunziza died at the Karusi Hospital
   in eastern Burundi late on Monday, two days after he reported feeling
   unwell and was taken to the facility.

     URGENT: Le Gouvernement de la République du Burundi annonce avec
     une très grande tristesse le décès inopiné de Son Excellence
     Pierre Nkurunziza, Président de la République du Burundi, survenu
     à l'Hôpital du Cinquantenaire de Karusi suite à un arrêt
     cardiaque ce 8 juin 2020. [1]pic.twitter.com/PP46kKzAM5
     -- Burundi Government (@BurundiGov) [2]June 9, 2020

   VOA's Central Africa service reported there was a heavy military
   presence around the hospital Tuesday.

   Nkurunziza's wife Denise was airlifted to a hospital in Kenya's capital
   10 days ago after contracting COVID-19, triggering rumors that the
   president had caught the disease as well.

   Nkurunziza, 55, was sworn in as president in 2005, at the end of
   Burundi's civil war. His decision to run for a controversial third term
   in 2015 set off protests and violence that left hundreds dead and
   prompted hundreds of thousands of Burundians to flee the country.

References

   1. https://t.co/PP46kKzAM5
   2. https://twitter.com/BurundiGov/status/1270359764065759233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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