Burundi’s Environment Minister, Emmanuel Niyonkuru, has been shot dead by unknown assailants, in the capital of Bujumbura, on Sunday, January 1.
Niyonkuru, 54, the country’s Water, Environment and Planning Minister, was “killed by a criminal with a gun, on his way home to Rohero,” according to a tweet sent by the Police Spokesman, Pierre Nkurikiye.
Also on Twitter, Nkurunziza offered his condolences, “to the family and all Burundians”, vowing the crime would be punished.
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