Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack aged 55. He was, before his death announced in a statement, due to step down in August after his party’s candidate won elections May, and had been president since 2005. Nkurunziza came to power at the end of Burundi’s 12-year civil war, which killed 300,000 people and was driven by similar ethnic tensions as the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda, where Hutu extremists slaughtered 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. A former leader of a Hutu rebel group, he was elected…
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