Prominent Burundi private radio boss flees, says activist

A Burundi court on Wednesday released on bail a radio station director accused of “complicity” in the murder of three Italian nuns, his lawyer said.

A 61-year-old man has been admitted to hospital after three people cut off his private parts and fled. The incident took place on Saturday in Mapogolo Village, Ileje District, according to Village Executive officer Mr Cosmas Landon.

Burundi's Vice-President Gervais Rufyikiri leaves the country, saying he cannot support the third-term bid of President Pierre Nkurunziza.

Prominent Burundi human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa is shot and seriously injured by gunmen on motorbikes, his family says.

Zimbabwe has licensed eight new commercial radio stations as it moves to dismantle a 35 year-old monopoly by the State broadcaster.

BUJUMBURA, Burundi — At least 77 civilians have been killed in clashes with Burundi's security forces since the start of anti-government protests in April, a rights activist said Friday.
Another 1,000 people have been arrested and dozens of prisoners tortured, Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, head of the Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons, told The Associated Press.
Mbonimpa said his group has representatives across the nation that have been tallying the death toll as...

Several diplomats were at Mbonimpa’s hospital bedside before the police arrived

>Burundi police on Tuesday arrested the head of a key radio station close to the opposition in connection with the murder of three Italian nuns after broadcasting an alleged confession of the killer.

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