Burundi Environment Minister Emmanuel Niyonkuru assassinated
By Brooks Hays

Emmanuel Niyonkuru was shot on his way home from a New Year's Eve Party. Photo by Government of Burundi
Burundi police confirmed the country's environment minister, Emmanuel Niyonkuru, was shot dead while returning home from a New Year's Eve party.
Burundi police confirmed the country's environment minister, Emmanuel Niyonkuru, was shot dead while returning home from a New Year's Eve party.
Police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye announced the "assassination" in a tweet.
Police also announced a woman who was traveling with Niyonkuru had been obtained for questioning.
Though recent months have been more peaceful, violence has been a constant in the small Central African nation since President Pierre Nkurunziza
announced he would seek a third term in early 2015. Over the last two
years, protestors have clashed with security forces, and a number of
high-profile officials and politicians have been assassinated. At least
450 people have died.
Nkurunziza was reelected in late 2015. Members
and supporters of the Opposition party boycotted the election. They
argue Nkurunziza's third term violates the Constitution and the peace
agreement that ended the country's last civil war.
Peace proponents and international groups remain concerned
that ethnic tensions between Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples could become
further inflamed. In 1994, close to one million Tutsi were killed by
Hutu-controlled government forces in the infamous Rwandan genocide.
Burundi Environment Minister Emmanuel Niyonkuru assassinated
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