Évariste Ndayishimiye

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Évariste Ndayishimiye (2018)

Évariste Ndayishimiye (* 1968 , Gitega Province ) is a Burundian politician and former military man. He has been president of his country since June 18, 2020.

Life

Évariste Ndayishimiye comes from a Hutu family from Burundi. He was just enrolled as a law student at the University of Burundi when Burundi's civil war broke out in 1995. He avoided the massacres of Hutu students and joined the CNDD-FDD rebel group (the later ruling party). He rose rapidly in the ranks of the CNDD-FDD, he was Minister for Internal Affairs and Public Security from 2006 to 2007 and Secretary General of the ruling party CNDD-FDD from 2016 to January 2020. He also headed the Department of Military Affairs in the office of then President Pierre Nkurunziza . Before entering politics, he built his career in the military. He served in the civil war for Hutu militias in the 1990s and was later promoted to major general.

Ndayishimiye was nominated by his party in January 2020 as a candidate for the Burundian presidential election on May 20, 2020 . He won the vote in the first ballot with around 69% of the vote and was due to take office at the end of August. A few days after the sudden death of his predecessor Nkurunziza on June 8, 2020, the Burundian constitutional court ruled that he should take up his post earlier. June 18th was set as the date.

Ndayishimiye is married to Angeline Ndayubaha. He is described as a "devout Catholic".

Web links

Commons : Évariste Ndayishimiye  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Partido gobernante de Burundi elige candidato para elecciones presidenciales. La Vanguardia, January 26, 2020 (Spanish), accessed May 14, 2020
  2. ↑ Le président Ndayishimiye prend tête de Burundi fragilisé. la-croix.com of June 18, 2020 (French), accessed June 18, 2020
  3. ↑ Burundi's ruling party names presidential hopeful (en-GB) . In: BBC News , January 26, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2020. 
  4. ↑ Ndayishimiye: Burundi government's presidential hopeful. bbc.com of January 26, 2020 (English), accessed on May 14, 2020
  5. ↑ Simone Schlindwein: Hardliner follows hardliner. taz.de from January 28, 2020, accessed on May 13, 2020
  6. ↑ Burundi election commission says Ndayishimiye new president. aljazeera.com of May 25, 2020 (English), accessed on May 25, 2020
  7. ↑ Burundi cabinet wants court to declare presidency vacant. africanews.com, June 13, 2020, accessed June 13, 2020
  8. ↑ Burundi to swear in president Ndayishimiye on June 18 - govt. africanews.com, June 15, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020
  9. ↑ Burundi vote campaign begins in shadow of violence and Covid-19. theeastafrican.co.ke of April 28, 2020 (English), accessed on May 14, 2020
  10. ↑ Qui est le général Evariste Ndayishimiye, le nouveau visage du régime burundais? RTBF , January 28, 2020, accessed on June 14, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Ndayishimiye, Évariste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burundian politician and military
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Gitega (Province)