http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/world/africa/burundi-assassination-emmanuel-niyonkuru.html?_r=0
>LONDON — Burundi’s environment minister was shot to death while en route home from a New Year’s celebration early Sunday morning, an act that could exacerbate the country’s nearly two-year-long political crisis.
>Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, the minister for water, environment and planning, was shot to death around 12:45 a.m. while returning to his home in the Rohero section of Bujumbura, the capital, according to a statement by Pierre Nkurikiye, a spokesman for the national police. He said that a woman who was with him had been detained for questioning.
>President Pierre Nkurunziza called the killing an “assassination” and said on Twitter: “Condolences to the family and to all Burundians. This crime will not go unpunished.”
>Violent protests broke out after April 2015, when Mr. Nkurunziza decided to run for a third term, even though the constitution limits the president to two five-year terms. (The constitutional court ruled that his first term did not count, since he had been elected by members of Parliament and not directly by voters.) He went on to win a new term, in an election that most of his rivals boycotted and that American and European observers described as neither fair nor free.
>Hundreds of people have been killed in the violence, which has displaced an estimated 300,000 people. The United Nations has warned of summary executions and other crimes that might amount to crimes against humanity — an assertion that Mr. Nkurunziza has rejected. In October, Burundi moved to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, the Hague-based tribunal responsible for investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first country to do so.
>>96188
>when Mr. Nkurunziza decided to run for a third term, even though the constitution limits the president to two five-year terms.
Why do you have to do this? Even Putin had the sense to switch off with his puppet Medvedev. Other dictators and fascists swap with their wives, etc.. I mean, at least make an effort to show you don't want to be president-for-life.
>>96194
It's like this repeating cycle where some other rich country like China or the US or some Euro country pays the legit African president for mineral rights and then the legit president turns into a corrupt one, spending the money on his military or himself while the country starves.
>>96646
That's the only way capitalism can survive. There have to be losers in the game and those poor fucks in Africa just happened to be on that team. Rest assured what comes around goes around. :-/