2005 Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/2005/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 16 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 2005 Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/2005/ 32 32 Burundians go to the polls in a dubious referendum https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/burundians-go-to-the-polls-in-a-dubious-referendum/ Wed, 16 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/burundians-go-to-the-polls-in-a-dubious-referendum/ Burundian’s are  voting today on a referendum that will allow President Pierre Nkurunziza to stay at the helm until 2034. The United States is among countries saying they don’t expect the poll to produce a fair result. President Pierre Nkurunziza’s hardly trying to convince his naysayers that the referendum will be above board. He’s thrown […]

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]]> Burundian’s are  voting today on a referendum that will allow President Pierre Nkurunziza to stay at the helm until 2034.

The United States is among countries saying they don’t expect the poll to produce a fair result.

President Pierre Nkurunziza’s hardly trying to convince his naysayers that the referendum will be above board.

He’s thrown out the BBC, Voice of America and other international media to prevent them from covering it.

Anyone calling for a  voter boycott is jailed and those who have not registered also face punishment.

Nkurunziza’s no stranger to applying heavy-handed measures to stay in power.

Hundreds of people have died protesting the unconstitutional  third term he took in 2015, and nearly half-a-million Burundians have fled the country to escape the violence.

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