Pierre Buyoya (24 November 1949 – 17 December 2020) was a Burundian army officer and politician who served two terms as President of Burundi in 1987 to...

Burundi from 2003 to 2005. He succeeded Pierre Buyoya, as president on 30 April 2003, after serving as Buyoya's vice president for 18 months. Ndayizeye...

12 June 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024. "Biographie de Pierre Buyoya" [Biography of Pierre Buyoya]. Le Monde (in French). 18 April 2001. Archived from the...

during a coup in 1996, and was replaced by former UPRONA president Pierre Buyoya. Following the end of the war in 2005, Ntibantunganya became a senator...

The last of the coups was in 1987 and installed Tutsi officer Pierre Buyoya. Buyoya attempted to institute a number of reforms to ease state control...

July 1996. In the midst of the Burundi Civil War, former president Pierre Buyoya (a Tutsi) deposed Hutu President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. According...

broke out in September 1987, led by Major Pierre Buyoya, while Bagaza was abroad in Quebec, Canada. Buyoya successfully deposed Bagaza's regime and established...

Minister and some of the top positions in the government. UPRONA President Pierre Buyoya handed over power to Hutu leader Domitien Ndayizeye of the Front for...

Burundi on 18 April 2001. The coup took place while the President, Pierre Buyoya, was in Gabon attending peace talks with the Hutu rebel group who had...

letter to Pierre Buyoya, asking for more representation of the Hutu in the administration. They were arrested and jailed. A few weeks later, Buyoya appointed...

of the Front for Democracy in Burundi defeating incumbent President Pierre Buyoya with 66% of the vote. Voter turnout was 97.3%. This election was a watershed...

photographs of Irangabiye with Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, and Pierre Buyoya, the former president of Burundi who had previously been given a life...

Ndadaye. July 25, 1996: Pierre Buyoya overthrew Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. April 18, 2001: Failed coup against Pierre Buyoya. May 13–15, 2015: Failed...

UPRONA. He is an ethnic Hutu and was appointed by the Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya in an unsuccessful attempt to appease Hutus by giving a few high government...

violence, and on 23 October he criticised the government of President Pierre Buyoya in a meeting called by the governor of Gitega Province. As a result...

Bagaza was deposed whilst traveling abroad and succeeded by Tutsi Major Pierre Buyoya. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was appointed president of Burundi following a...

place in 2001: a group of junior officers sought to overthrow President Pierre Buyoya in Burundi while he was out of the country on April 18,: 218  and André...

assassination. Nduwayo, as well as the former president of Burundi, Pierre Buyoya, and fifteen other defendants, were sentenced to life imprisonment for...

transparency, and debt reduction. To protest the 1996 coup by President Pierre Buyoya, neighboring countries imposed an economic embargo on Burundi. Although...

discrimination. Paul Kagame Stromae Michel Micombero Jean Baptiste Bagaza Pierre Buyoya James Kabarebe Louise Mushikiwabo Arielle Kayabaga Benjamin Sehene Saido...

activities and detained political opposition members. In 1987, Major Pierre Buyoya overthrew Col. Bagaza in a military coup d'état. He dissolved opposition...

National Progress) at the time, was interior minister in the government of Pierre Buyoya, who was defeated by Ndadaye in elections held on 1 June 1993. Following...

coach November 23 – Marcia Griffiths, Jamaican singer November 24 – Pierre Buyoya, former President of Burundi (d. 2020) November 25 Kerry O'Keeffe, Australian...

President (1966–1976) Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, President (1976–1987) Pierre Buyoya, President (1987–1993) Melchior Ndadaye, President (1993) François Ngeze...

as deputy". RFI. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. "Pierre Buyoya pays a courtesy call to the newly appointed Malian Defence Minister...

office (not counting one Acting Prime Minister). Additionally, two people, Pierre Ngendandumwe and Albin Nyamoya, served on two non-consecutive occasions...

coup d'état: In the midst of the Burundi Civil War, former president Pierre Buyoya deposed President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya on 25 July. 1996 Iraqi coup...

between Pierre Buyoya, the President of Burundi and rebels Alain Mugabarabona, Jean-Bosco Ndayikengurukiye and Pierre Nkurunziza in Pretoria. 27 – Pierre Buyoya...

country and was charged in absentia. The defense claimed former president Pierre Buyoya (an accused war criminal) was involved in a leadership position, but...

Zimbabwe, Frederick Chiluba of Zambia, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, Pierre Buyoya of Burundi, and King Mswati III of Swaziland. During the wedding, 29...