The Burundi Supreme Court has sentenced those accused of plotting a coup in 2015 to life imprisonment last year, documents made public for the first time by local media on Saturday revealed. Those sentenced to life imprisonment include former army generals, politicians, journalists and right activists – all sentenced in absentia, with court documents showing
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BREAKING: Coronavirus claims its first Head of State, President of Burundi
Report reaching The DAILY VENDOR indicates that the dreaded novel virus ‘coronavirus’ may have claimed its first Head of State, since it first became a global pandemic. The Daily Mail UK, reported that the Burundian president died from the coronavirus according to medics at the hospital where he was flown to following his death. Burundian government had
Read moreBurundi expels top WHO team steering coronavirus crisis
Burundi has ordered the expulsion of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) expert team backing the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, just days before a presidential election. The foreign ministry, in a letter to WHO Africa headquarters and seen by AFP on Wednesday, said the UN agency’s representative in Burundi and his three colleagues “are
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