"He will be able to speak on equal terms with the leaders of the Sahel States Alliance," highlights a diplomatic source.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged a rights-based approach in a letter on Friday to the newly appointed African Union (AU) Special Envoy for the Sahel, Burundi President H.E. Évariste Ndayishimiye.

President Evariste Ndayishimiye also railed against Western governments that he said had conditioned providing aid on accepting gay rights. His remarks do not carry the force of law. By Abdi Latif ...

African Union Chairperson appoints H.E. Évariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi, as his Special Envoy for the Sahel region ...

The Burundi constitutional court on Thursday upheld the presidential election of retired general Evariste Ndayishimiye. The controversial election occurred in May and marked the country’s first ...

Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye, recently appointed as the African Union's Special Envoy for the Sahel, held a ...

Evariste Ndayishimiye can be quite angry and gets carried away very easily, and risks becoming infuriated." One diplomat said Ndayishimiye displayed an "openness and honesty unlike other generals".

Evariste Ndayishimiye of the Burundi's ruling party, the National Council for the Defence of Democracy-Forces for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD), casts his ballot at a polling centre during ...

Burundi’s new president Evariste Ndayishimiye set out on his first week in power with a new, leaner cabinet, and a different approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two days after the burial of his ...

Burundi's newly elected president, Evariste Ndayishimiye, has been sworn in two months earlier than planned. No foreign heads of state were present when he took the oath of office in the ...

Who is Evariste Ndayishimiye? By Cyuzuzo Samba, BBC Great Lakes The 52-year-old army general is regarded as a "humble" and "religious" man.