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Burundi says president Nkurunziza has died of heart attack

by Associated Press
| June 9, 2020 8:03 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack at age 56, the government announced Tuesday, ending a 15-year-rule marked by deadly political violence and a historic withdrawal from the International Criminal Court.

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