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The former prime minister of Burundi, Alain Guillaume, has been arrested, the country’s justice ministry said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>

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Alain Guillaume Bunyoni was prime minister from June 2020 to September 2022, when he was sacked after the president accused unnamed people of planning a coup against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Alain Guillaume Bunyoni is currently in the hands of the police,” said a statement signed by the General Prosecutor Sylvestre Nyandwi and shared by the justice ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bunyoni was arrested in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura on Friday, Nyandwi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement did not specify where he was being held or the charges he would be facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country’s human rights commission tweeted that representatives had visited Bunyoni in detention and said he had not faced any abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bunyoni was considered the number two in the country’s ruling party and was a close ally of former president Pierre Nkurunziza, who died in office in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bunyoni has been under U.S. sanctions since 2015 over his alleged role in violating human rights during violence sparked by Nkurunziza\u2019s decision to seek a third term in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nkurunziza’s administration foiled a coup attempt in 2015 and violence erupted, killing at least a thousand Burundians and forcing 400,000 people to flee abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country became an international pariah as a result, with donors cutting aid and the U.S. and EU placing sanctions on some officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bunyoni was security minister during the unrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The East African nation of 11 million people is one of the world\u2019s poorest countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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