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Opposition leader Agaton Rwasa said electoral observers from his party were chased away from some polling stations.

The Paris court granted Kabuga’s request for an eight-day postponement to prepare his defence.

Ruling party candidate, general Evariste Ndayishimiye has suggested voters not fear the coronavirus, saying “God loves Burundi and if there are people who have tested positive, it is so that God may manifest his power in Burundi.”

Officials said in a statement on Monday, that “a number of his office staff and bodyguards” had also tested positive for Covid-19.

“Everyone in the vehicle including the governor and his driver died, there was smoke and fire all everywhere”, a witness named Bile Mohamed said.

President Kenyatta also extended by 21 days an existing dusk-to-dawn curfew and a ban on movement in and out of areas of Kenya worst hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

“Following completion of appropriate procedures under French law, Kabuga is expected to be transferred to the custody of the Mechanism, where he will stand trial,” the UN’s tribunal MICT based in Arusha, Tanzania said in a statement on Saturday.

A French statement said Kabuga, aged 84, had been living in Asnieres-sur-Seine north of Paris and had been hiding with the complicity of his children.

Burundi is kicking out the World Health Organization’s top officials in the country just days before the presidential election and after the WHO raised concerns about…

Interior Minister, Amad Miquidade reported on Thursday that around 20 attacks on 11 Cabo Delgado villages had occurred between the 3rd and 12th of May.