2020
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Burundi

Decades:
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List of years in Burundi

Incumbents

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Events

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January

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  • January 13 - China promises to strengthen ties to Burundi.[1]
  • 31 January: Four journalists are sentenced to 30-month jail sentences in Burundi.[2]

February

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  • February 5 - Unity Day, Burundi
  • 15 February – Six mass graves with 6,000 bodies are found in Karuzi Province, Burundi.[3]

April

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June

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July to December

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Burundi: Chinese, Burundian FMs Hold Talks, Vowing to Strengthen Cooperation allAfrica, 13 January 2020, retrieved 13 February 2020
  2. ^ Burundi: Four Burundian Journalists Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison all Africa, 31 January 2020, retrieved 11 February 2020
  3. ^ Over 6,000 bodies found in Burundi's mass graves Reuters, 15 February 2020
  4. ^ Elsevier. "Novel Coronavirus Information Center". Elsevier Connect. Archived from the original on 30 January 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  5. ^ Reynolds, Matt (4 March 2020). "What is coronavirus and how close is it to becoming a pandemic?". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Crunching the numbers for coronavirus". Imperial News. Archived from the original on 19 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  7. ^ "High consequence infectious diseases (HCID); Guidance and information about high consequence infectious diseases and their management in England". GOV.UK. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Ordenan expulsión de representante de la OMS en Burundi" [Expulsion of WHO representatives in Burundi ordered]. El Sol de México (in Spanish). Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  9. ^ Agence France-Presse (May 12, 2020). "Burundi expels WHO officials coordinating coronavirus response". Al Jazeera English. Burundi has ordered the country's top World Health Organization (WHO) representative and three other experts coordinating the coronavirus response to leave the country. The expelled officials include the WHO's representative Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, the country's coronavirus coordinator Dr Jean Pierre Mulunda Nkata, communicable diseases head Dr Ruhana Mirindi Bisimwa, and a laboratory expert in the testing for COVID-19, Professor Daniel Tarzy.
  10. ^ Burundi’s main opposition leader announces election bid Andalou, 18 November 2019
  11. ^ "Former Burundian president Buyoya is buried in Mali". msn.com. AFP. December 29, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  12. ^ Former first vice-president Prophet Thérence Sinunguruza died on Friday after a short illness
  13. ^ Tampa, Vava (12 June 2020). "Pierre Nkurunziza obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  14. ^ Burundi’s Pierre Buyoya dies from Covid-19