Burundi’s former president Pierre Buyoya has died in Paris of Covid-19 at the age of 71, relatives said Friday, just weeks after he resigned as the African Union’s special envoy to Mali and the Sahel.
Buyoya, who
was credited with helping push democracy in the small African country but was
accused of involvement in his successor’s assassination, was hospitalised in
Mali’s capital Bamako on Wednesday, a family member told AFP.
“He was
evacuated to Paris yesterday afternoon. His plane made a stopover and arrived
in France in the evening,” the family member said, requesting anonymity.
“He died as
the ambulance took him to hospital in Paris for treatment” on Thursday night,
the source added.
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