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- July 24: CENI announces that Pierre Nkurunziza won the Presidential election with 69% of the vote. Agathon Rwasa won 18%.
- July 24: In a statement, Secretary of State John Kerry calls the election “deeply flawed” and encourages dialogue.
- July 25: Rwasa calls for new elections within a year and says he would not oppose the creation of a unity government.
- July 26: Vital Nshimirimana, the CEO of the Forum for Strengthening the Civil Society (FORSC), states that Nkurunziza should not have a place in a unity government.
- July 27: Burundi’s new National Assembly has its inaugural session. While Agathon Rwasa and 20 members of the FNL took their seats in parliament, UPRONA, FNL’s coalition partner, refused to do likewise.
- July 27: MENUB, the UN’s electoral monitoring mission in Burundi, states that conditions in Burundi around the election were not conducive to free and fair elections.
- July 28: The CNDD-FDD asked the EAC to understand the need for a constitutional amendment to create a government of national unity.
- July 30: Agathon Rwasa is elected as the National Assembly’s Vice President.
- July 30: In a televised speech, President Nkurunziza urges unity, saying he will be President of all Burundians.
- July 30: The European Union releases a further €4.5 million to aid Burundi refugees.
- July 31: In Ruvyagira, gunmen wearing military uniforms kill two, including the Direct of the Ruvyagira Secondary School.
- August 2: General Adolphe Nshimirimana, who headed President Nkurunziza’s personal security, is assassinated by attackers wearing military fatigues in his home neighborhood of Kamenge in Bujumbura.
- August 2: Following the assassination, both the AU and the US urge calm.
- August 2: A Burundian journalist working for AFP and RFI is detained at the scene of the assassination by members of the National Intelligence Service, beaten for two hours, and then released.
- August 2: Three separate attacks, one in Cibitoke, one in Bubanza, and one in Bujumbura’s Buringa neighborhood leaves three police officers and two civilians dead.
- August 3: APRODH President and prominent human rights activist Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in Bujumbura.
- August 3: The President of the CNDD-FDD in Kanyosha is attacked by a crowd in Bujumbura, and then shot and killed, allegedly by individuals in military fatigues.
- August 4: The UNSG Ban Ki-moon releases a statement condemning the assassination attempt on Mbonimpa.
- August 5: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni tells UNSG Ban Ki-moon that Defense Minister Crispus Kioynga will return to Burundi to mediate talks, but doesn’t specify a date.
- August 6: HRW releases a report about abuses committed against prisonersin police custody.
- August 6: Two bodies, showing signs of torture, are discovered in a gutter in Buterere.
- August 6: Two Congolese refugees are killed in Cibitoke and a cab driver is injured. Witnesses say the two were buying phone cards, but were stopped by police. After handing over their identification documents, they were both shot.
- August 6: US Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Tom Periello expresses grave concern about the situation in Burundi and voices his support for renewed dialogue.
- August 7: Michael Forst, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, says Burundi needs to do more to protect activists like Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa from future attacks.
- August 7: A 5.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Burundi and neighboring countries, but no casualties were reported in Burundi.
- August 9: Burundi’s prosecutor state states that some of the killers of Adolphe Nshimiriamana have been captured, but others, including the masterminds, remain at large.
- August 9: Hundreds of mourners dressed in black hold a vigil for Adolphe Nshimirimana in his home neighborhood of Kamenge in Bujumbura.
- August 9: Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa leaves Burundi to seek medical treatment in Belgium.
- August 9: Heavy fighting erupts in Bujumbura’s Jabe and Cibitoke neighborhoods Sunday night and early Monday morning. At least one police officer is injured in the clashes.
- August 10: The UNSC meets and demands that the government reopen negotiations with the opposition.
- August 11: Exiled Burundian television presenter and radio journalistPamela Kazekare forms the political movement Komezamahoro.
- August 11: Two Rwandans, Joseph Mbonyinshuti and Aimé Nkundabatware, are arrested by Burundian authorities at the border on charges of espionage.
- August 11: After former Vice President Gervais Rufyikiri turned down the position, the new opposition coalition CNARED announce CNDD leader, and CNDD-FDD founder, Leonard Nyangoma as its chairman.
- August 11: The Burundian government voices its support for the UNSC’s recommendation to resume dialogue.
- August 12: Envoys from the US, Belgium, AU, EU, and UN say that Burundi is undermining the Arusha Accords.
- August 13: The CNDD-FDD declares Nkurunziza’s victory in the Presidential election was a “miracle”.
- August 13: CNARED Chairman Leonard Nyangoma states that Nkurunziza has “declared war” on Burundians.
- August 13: Nkurunziza condemns the attack on RFI and AFP journalist Esdras Ndikumana.
- August 14: The office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights warns that the situation in Burundi could “spiral out of control.
- August 14: Tanzania issues an Ebola alert in response to a Burundian refugees dies after experiencing symptoms similar to Ebola in Nyarugusu refugee camp.
- August 15: Colonel Jean Bikomagu, who led the government’s armed forces during Burundi’s civil war, is assassinated outside his home. His daughter is seriously wounded, and later moved hospitals because suspicious individuals tried to force their way to her hospital bed.
- August 16: The African Union warns that “catastrophic consequences” could result if the crisis is not resolved peacefully.
- August 16: Foreign Minister Alain Nyamitwe states that the government for Nkurunziza’s third term will include members of the political opposition.
- August 17: UNSG Ban Ki-moon condemns the assassination of Jean Bikomagu.
- August 18: Four supporters of the CNDD-FDD are killed in a bar in Bujumbura’s Musaga neighborhood.
- August 20: In a surprise ceremony, President Nkurunziza is sworn in for a third term. No heads of state are present for the inauguration. Nkurunziza says he, with the help of God, will end the crisis within two months.
- August 20: The US State Department releases a statement stressing the need for dialogue between the government and the opposition.
- August 21: CNARED chairman Leonard Nyangoma says that Nkurunziza has until August 26th to step down. Well he says CNARED is open to dialogue, he also implies that violence may be necessary in the future.
- August 21: Foreign Minister Alain Nyamitwe says that in order to form a unity government, Nkurunziza would review article 129 of the constitution, which sets quotas for ethnic power-sharing and the percentile threshold for parties to receive seats in the legislature.
- August 21: Botswana President Ian Khama criticizes Nkurunziza for seeking a third term.
- August 22: More than thirty Rwandans traveling into Burundi are detained by Burundian security forces, leading the Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo to announce that she has raised the issue with Burundi’s government.
- August 23: FNL member Pontian Barutwanayo is assassinated in a bar in Isale. Barutwanayo was the administrator of Isale commune, and the only administrator in the country to be an FNL member.
- August 24: Amnesty International releases a report on the use of tortureagainst members of the political opposition...
