What is Pierre Buyoya?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]] |name = Pierre Buyoya |image = Pierre Buyoya at Chatham House 2013 crop.jpg |caption = Buyoya in 2013 |office = 3rd [[List of Presidents of Burundi|President of Burundi]] |vicepresident = [[Frédéric Bamvuginyumvira]]<br/>[[Mathias Sinamenye]]<br/>[[Domitien Ndayizeye]] |primeminister = [[Pascal-Firmin Ndimira]] |term_start = 25 July 1996 |term_end = 30 April 2003<br />{{small|[[Acting (law)|Acting]]: 25 July 1996 – 11 June 1998}} |predecessor = [[Sylvestre Ntibantunganya]] |successor = [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] |primeminister1 = [[Adrien Sibomana]] |term_start1 = 9 September 1987 |term_end1 = 10 July 1993 |predecessor1 = [[Jean-Baptiste Bagaza]] |successor1 = [[Melchior Ndadaye]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1935|11|24|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Rutovu]], [[Ruanda-Urundi]]<br />{{small|(now [[Burundi]])}} |death_date = {{death date and age|2020|12|17|1935|11|24|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.radiyoyacuvoa.com/a/pierre-buyoya-yigeze-kuyobora-uburundi-yitavye-imana-/5704361.html?nocache=1&fbclid=IwAR1jlvQvT3cC2bek81TT-tweb5lW-ziTk9OngXmfhcqCoPiwQJyNOFSGHZ8 | title=Pierre Buyoya Yigeze Kuyobora Uburundi Yitavye Imana }}</ref> |death_place = [[Paris]], France |spouse = [[Sophie Buyoya]] |party = [[Union for National Progress]] |alma_mater = [[École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr]] }} '''Pierre Buyoya''' (24 November 1935 – 17 December 2020) was a Burundian politician and soldier. He was the [[President of Burundi]] two times from 1987 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2003. Buyoya was the second longest-serving Burundian president. Buyoya died on 17 December 2020 in [[Paris]] from [[COVID-19]] at the age of 85.<ref>[https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/burundis-pierre-buyoya-dies-from-covid-19-e47a69b8-8c26-40ce-b338-90a7bd7929d1 Burundi’s Pierre Buyoya dies from Covid-19]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Buyoya, Pierre}} [[Category:194