President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi

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National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD.

following the assassination of Burundi's first ethnic Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye, in 1993.

June and July 2005, Nkurunziza was nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

Nkurunziza was the first president chosen through democratic means since the start of the civil war in 1993 and was sworn in on 26 August, replacing transitional president Domitien Ndayizeye.

At the inauguration ceremony held in the National Assembly, Nkurunziza took over power from the outgoing president Domitien Ndayizeye, who assumed power as the second transitional president in 2003.

Nkurunziza was elected last week with more than 90 percent of the votes in a joint session of the National Assembly and the Senate, both dominated by his Forces for Defense of Democracy (FDD) party, a former Hutu rebel group that joined the transitional government in November 2003 as a legal political party.

In 1993, civil war broke out following the assasination of Hutu President Melchior Ndadaye while Nkurunziza was lecturing at Burundi University.

After the army attacked the campus, Nkurunziza joined rebel forces as a soldier for the Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD.

In 2005, the CNDD-FDD experienced a series of electoral victories and Nkurunziza was soon elected president without protest from the parliament.

Ex-rebel Pierre Nkurunziza was elected president in 2005 under a deal to end years of conflict between the Tutsi army and Hutu rebels.

The Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza has put his weight behind the event and has invited heads of state of Belgium, Cameroon, Ethiopia, France, Kenya.

Nkurunziza was born in 1963 in Burundi's capital city of BujumburaBujumbura Bujumbura is the capital city of Burundi.

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held during June and July 2005, Nkurunziza was nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

Pierre Nkurunziza married his wife in 1994 and is the father of two boys.

Nkurunziza was born in 1963 in Burundi's capital city of Bujumbura.

Nkurunziza was a lecturer at Burundi University when civil war broke out in the country following the assassination of Burundi's first ethnic Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye, in 1993.

After rising through the ranks, Nkurunziza was appointed deputy secretary-general of the CNDD-FDD in 1998.

Following a series of CNDD-FDD victories in elections held during June and July 2005, Nkurunziza was nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

A self-described 'born again' Christian, Pierre Nkurunziza married his wife in 1994 and is the father of two boys.

After leading the FDD to a decisive victory in the parliamentary elections of July 2005, Nkurunziza accepted the FDDs presidential nomination.

Nkurunziza was born in December 1963 in the province of Ngozi in northern Burundi.

Becoming active in the civil war, Nkurunziza joined the FDD and by 2001 had assumed chairmanship of the group.

Nkurunziza received immunity from prosecution for war crimes as part of the accords.

President Pierre Nkurunziza said there have been improvements to the security equipment and that this proves that Bujumbura's international.

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Mr Nkurunziza has been in power for 13 months.

Nkurunziza was a minister in the transitional government that followed and was elected president in 2005.

Pierre Nkurunziza meets ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun I.

His Excellency,Pierre NKURUNZIZA was accompanied to KIST by The Rwandan Minister of Education, Hon Jean DArc Mujyawamariya.

His Excellency,Pierre NKURUNZIZA was guided around KIST facilities which included the cottage industry and ICT.

Hutu tribe had signed peace deals earlier, leading to democratic elections in 2005 in which former rebel Pierre Nkurunziza was elected president.

NEW YORK, Oct 25 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch has accused Burundi's national intelligence service of serious rights abuses, including executions and torture.

Of course, there is that uncertainty, or that curiosity, shared by all the Burundians to know how President Nkurunziza is going to change the political system.

President Pierre Nkurunziza is the head of state for Burundi.

In August 2005, Pierre Nkurunziza was sworn in as the first.

President Pierre Nkurunziza had also agreed to those conditions and offered 33 positions for senior Palipehutu-FNL party members in State institutions.