Burundi Environmental Minister Killed
January 1 2017                                                                                                                                                                                                    By Abiodun Giwa

    Emmanuel Niyonkuru, the Burundi Environmental Ministers has been assassinated. He was killed on his way home at about few minutes before 01:00 am on Sunday, according to a report by the Kenya Daily Nation newspaper. 
   It is the first assassination in the country since the country fell into political unrest in 2015. 

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