Burundi's electoral commission is to announce provisional results from last week's presidential election Monday, with the outgoing head of state's handpicked successor Evariste Ndayishimiye poised ...
A supporter holds a picture of Agathon Rwasa, presidential candidate of the main opposition party the National Congress for Liberty, during the last day of the campaign in Gitega, central Burundi, on May 17.
The announcement is set for 2:00 pm , according to an official press invitation received Sunday. Definitive results will be published on June 4. The vote came five years after the highly contested re-election of Pierre Nkurunziza for a third term, which sparked violence that left at least 1,200 dead, saw 400,000 flee the country and plunged the former Belgian colony into turmoil that persists to this day.Partial results published by state media gave Ndayishimiye, 52, around 80 percent of the vote.
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