Political strife9/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() On, the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court fled the country following alleged death threats from senior figures in the government. President Pierre Nkurunziza, pictured in 2008 The country's government does not have enough money to fund needed programs and the economy is reliant on coffee exports whose price has fluctuated radically in recent years and made long-term financial planning nearly impossible. According to the World Bank, over 60% of Burundians do not have enough food. Since 2005, poverty has remained a major problem. The conflict ended with a peace process that brought in the 2005 constitution providing guaranteed representation for both Hutu and Tutsi, and parliamentary elections that led to Pierre Nkurunziza, from the Hutu FDD, becoming president. The Burundian Civil War lasted from 1993 to 2005, and an estimated 300,000 people were killed. On 11 December, almost 90 people were killed in attacks on state targets. By the next day the coup collapsed and government forces reasserted control. On, a coup was announced, led by Major General Godefroid Niyombare, while President Nkurunziza was in Tanzania attending an emergency conference about the situation in the country. In April, tens of thousands of people fled the country, hundreds of people were arrested and several protesters and police officers were killed while dozens more were injured. As a result of the protests the government also shut down the country's internet and telephone network, closed all of the country's universities and government officials publicly referred to the protesters as "terrorists". During that time the country's highest court approved Nkurunziza's right to run for a third term in office despite the fact that at least one of the court's judges fled the country claiming he had received death threats from members of the government. ![]() Widespread demonstrations in the then-capital, Bujumbura, lasted for over three weeks. The announcement sparked protests by those opposed to Nkurunziza seeking a third term in office. On 25 April 2015, the ruling political party in Burundi, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD), announced that the incumbent President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, would run for a third term in the 2015 presidential election. ![]()
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