Burundi: a time bomb about to go off, unless President Nkurunzinza leaves
The Standard Digital News - 3 hours ago
By PETER WANYONYI Updated Sunday, June 29th 2014 at 21:04 GMT +3
Politicians never listen. For some time now, it has been clear that
President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi was planning to hold onto
power. This is a common African story. And it is also the case in
neighbouring Rwanda - which has a similar ethnic profile as Burundi.
Apparently, president Kagame's followers are urging him to change the
constitution, and run again for a third term in 2017. But that is
where the post-traumatic similarities end.
Ethnic make-up
Whereas President Kagame took a Rwanda shattered by genocide and
turned it into Africa's best-run country, Burundi has known nothing
but penury and associated bad leadership since President Nkurunziza
took over in 2005.
Direct comparisons between countries are not always possible, but
Rwanda and Burundi are so similar in size, ethnic make-up,
pre-colonial and post-colonial history that they are probably the only
two countries on earth that should generally be on a par, whatever the
circumstances.
Despicable regime
Yet, while Rwanda is on track to meet all of its Millennium
Development Goals ahead of schedule, Burundi is, incredibly, falling
further behind on its own development goals.
President Nkurunziza runs a despicable regime, one which has overseen
an astonishing rise in levels of corruption and has even been rumoured
to be supporting Rwandese rebels hiding out in the jungles of Eastern
Congo.
There is, in fact, practically no index or measure of development that
President Nkurunziza scores positively on. His failure to heal
Burundi's ethnic divisions is glaring, the few Tutsi ministers in his
cabinet recently resigned in a huff, points to an unreformed
ideologue, steeped in partisan Hutu power intrigues and unwilling to
let his country move on from the tragedies and travesties of the past.
Unless President Nkurunziza sees sense, or is made to, and leaves when
his mandate expires, Burundi faces serious trouble ahead.
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