{"id":59935,"date":"2020-01-27T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59935"},"modified":"2020-01-27T16:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:48:34","slug":"burundi-ruling-party-chooses-gen-evariste-ndayishimiye-to-replace-nkurunziza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59935","title":{"rendered":"Burundi ruling party chooses Gen. Evariste Ndayishimiye to replace Nkurunziza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/1002785\/400x225_1002785.jpg?1580037130\" alt=\"Burundi ruling party chooses Gen. Evariste Ndayishimiye to replace Nkurunziza\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BUJUMBURA, Jan 27 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Burundi\u2019s Gen. Evariste Ndayishimiye was on Sunday confirmed as the ruling party\u2019s candidate in the May presidential elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national conference for the ruling&nbsp;CNDD-FDD&nbsp;party in the rural province of Gitega is the latest proof that the country\u2019s president Pierre Nkurunziza will now retire after serving three terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nkurunziza will retire after presiding over a disputed third term that sparked violence and forced hundreds of thousands to flee the tiny central African country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndayishimiye, a Nkurunziza ally, has been serving as the ruling party\u2019s secretary-general. Years ago he dropped out of university to become a rebel fighting alongside Nkurunziza in Burundi\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nkurunziza rose to power in 2005 following the signing of the Arusha accords ending a 13-year civil war that killed about 300,000 people. He was re-elected unopposed in 2010 after the opposition boycotted the vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then claimed he was eligible for a third term in 2015 because lawmakers, not the general population, had chosen him for his first term \u2014 a move that critics called unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nkurunziza\u2019s influence could still linger after the election, since he could receive the title of \u201cparamount leader\u201d under draft legislation approved by the government last week. In 2018, the ruling party declared him \u201cthe eternal supreme guide,\u201d a description mocked by some critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNkurunziza is just stepping back, not going away. He will still be working in the background, trying to protect his family and fortunes,\u201d said Charles Nditije, a former minister who is now in the opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere will never be free and fair or credible election. The coming election is meant to give legitimacy to the new president.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that \u201cthe government does not respect human rights and security agents continue kill with impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allegations of rights abuses led to Burundi leaving the International Criminal Court and kicking out the U.N. human rights office. Burundi\u2019s government strongly denies allegations that it targets its own people. &#8212; NNN-AFRICANEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUJUMBURA, Jan 27 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Burundi\u2019s Gen. Evariste Ndayishimiye was on Sunday confirmed as the ruling party\u2019s candidate in the May presidential elections. The national conference for the ruling&nbsp;CNDD-FDD&nbsp;party in the rural province of Gitega is the latest proof that the country\u2019s president Pierre Nkurunziza will now retire after serving three terms. Nkurunziza will retire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}