Burundi To Vote In Tense Poll Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
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, 2020. AFPBurundians will vote Wednesday in a tense general election, despite a largely-ignored outbreak of coronavirus which is set to be the first major challenge for the new president.
The government has expelled the four top World Health Organization officials steering the response to the epidemic, with no explanation. They left the country on Saturday. At least 1,200 people were killed and more than 400,000 displaced in violence between April 2015 and May 2017 that the UN says was mostly carried out by state security forces. Less than a quarter of those displaced have returned to their homes.
At the end of January, the party unveiled Ndayishimiye as his successor — a veteran party operator nevertheless seen as softer than Nkurunziza.
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