Burundi’s former president, Pierre Buyoya has died in Paris of Covid-19 at the age of 71. His death came a few weeks after he resigned as the African Union’s special envoy to Mali and the Sahel.
Buyoya was hospitalized in Mali’s capital, Bamako on Wednesday, a family member said.
“He was evacuated to Paris yesterday afternoon. His plane made a stopover and arrived in France in the evening.”
“He died as the ambulance took him to hospital in Paris for treatment” on Thursday night, the source added.
Buyoya died just two months after being convicted in absentia by a court in Burundi of the 1993 murder of his successor, a killing that triggered more than a decade of ethnic bloodletting.
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