Outgoing Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza this week congratulated his party's candidate Major General Évariste Ndayishimiye who won the May 20 presidential election. "We will swallow our dark past which does not deserve to be our prison," he said at a campaign rally outside Bujumbura. Security, Ndayishimiye said, would be a government priority to protect Burundians and the country’s borders. As a former Deputy Chief of Defence Forces, he said he would modernise the army by building the capacity of the Burundi National Defence Forces and the national police. The fight against impunity was also a recurrent campaign theme.

Source: The Star May 30, 2020 19:49 UTC