Albin Nyamoya

Albin Nyamoya (born July 27, 1924 in Mwumba , Ngozi , † January 31, 2001 ) was a Burundian politician . He was Prime Minister of Burundi from April 6, 1964 to January 7, 1965 and from July 15, 1972 to June 5, 1973.

Nyamoya studied veterinary medicine in Butare (then Astrida , today in Rwanda ) from 1938 to 1944 , from 1945 he was a qualified veterinarian in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Rwanda-Urundi trust area . From September 29, 1961 he was Minister of Agriculture and Livestock and - after the independent state was founded as the Kingdom of Burundi in 1962 - he became Minister of the Interior in March 1963. From 1964 to 1965 he was Prime Minister. In the following years he worked again in the Ministry of Agriculture and became Minister of Agriculture in March 1970. From July 1972 to June 1973 he was again Prime Minister. During this short term in office he campaigned for the reconciliation of Hutu and Tutsi , of whom over 100,000 people were killed in unrest in the months before Nyamoya took office. From 1982 to 1987 he was a member of the National Assembly for his home province of Ngozi .

Nyamoya was married to Mélanie Sinduhije and had 10 children.

Web links

• Information about Nyamoya in the Burundian Who Is Who (French) ( Memento from October 14, 2004 in the Internet Archive )