Tanzania, March 13 -- Dar es Salaam. Agathon Rwasa, the leader of Burundi's main opposition party, was controversially removed from his position while he was on a trip to Tanzania. The National Freedom Congress (CNL), which Rwasa founded in 2019, held a meeting in his absence and elected Nestor Girukwishaka as the new president of the party for a five-year term.

Rwasa initially opposed this congress, but Burundian security forces intervened heavily, including arresting individuals suspected of disrupting the meeting. African opposition figures have since come together in support of Rwasa, with the Pan African Opposition Leaders Network condemning the Burundian government for allegedly working to unlawfully change the party's leadership....