President Nkurunziza of Burundi wins third term election

                            

President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi has won a third 5 years term as announced by the Electoral Commission on Friday,a poll that is surrounded by boycott by Opposition and violence.

Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, head of the electoral commission, told reporters Nkurunziza had won 69.41 percent of the votes cast. Nkrunziza’s nearest rival, Agathon Rwasa, took 18.99 percent.
Despite calls by African leaders and Western powers for it to be delayed the election due to rising insecurity and the boycott by opposition candidates whose names remained on the ballot paper, the voting still took place.