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Eustache Ngabisha (d. 1972 in Ngozi, Burundi) was a Burundian politician, and the father of Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza. [2] Ngabisha, who was Hutu and Roman Catholic , [3] was an associate of Louis Rwagasore in the early 1960s, [4] and subsequently became involved in politics, joining UPRONA .
Jun 17, 2020 · Pierre Nkurunziza was born in December 1964 in Ngozi province to Eustache Ngabisha, a Hutu parliamentarian and governor who was killed during the 1972 massacres. Nkurunziza went on to excel in his studies and was working as a lecturer at the University of Burundi in 1995, when there was a massacre of Hutu students on campus.
- A Good Beginning Turned Sour
- Party Politics and The Question of Political Vacuum
- Regional Hopes and Uncertainties
The investiture of Nkurunziza in 2005 was celebrated as a major step towards peace and democracy, after a decade-long civil war. His first term in office was referred to as a success. But corruption and persistent human rights violations were increasingly denounced, particularly during his second mandate (2010-2015). His decision to run and his re-...
Nkurunziza’s death has thrown the party into disarray, as he became its most influential leader. It is unclear what to do next: to maintain, renew or reconfigure itself? Even his critics might agree that Nkurunziza acted as an effective mediator of political games between an epicentre of power – often invisible– in the hands of powerful military ge...
The sudden change of the political trajectory of Burundi has implications for regional politics. Burundi’s tensions and insecurity are inextricably linked to past and current conflicts in neighbouring states. The region has typically experienced violent post-colonial transitions. Legacies of mass violence remain deeply entangled with massive forced...
Jun 10, 2020 · One of six children, Nkurunziza was the son of a Tutsi assistant nurse mother and a Hutu politician father, Eustache Ngabisha, who had served as a governor before being killed in 1972 during a ...
Jun 20, 2020 · Pierre Nkurunziza’s father, Eustache Ngabisha, a governor, was killed. The Nyamitwe brothers, one ex-foreign minister and the other communications advisor to President Nkurunziza, are some of the most prominent orphans of the period.
Jun 11, 2020 · The son of Eustache Ngabisha, one of the few Hutu MPs at the time, and of a Tutsi caretaker, Domitille Minani, he was barely eight years old when he was first confronted with ethnic violence in Burundi, with the 1972 massacre of part of the Hutu elite by the predominantly Tutsi army.
May 12, 2015 · Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, the son of a Tutsi mother and a Hutu father, was born with politics in his blood just a year after the country celebrated its independence from Belgium in 1962.
