“I will not go back on my word. Our mandate ends in 2020,” Nkurunziza said in a speech in front of supporters and diplomats in the central Gitega region.
The constitution, approved on May 17 by a majority of voters around the densely-populated central African country in a referendum, allows Nkurunziza to run for office twice more in seven-year terms from 2020.
“History is being written in the centre of the country at Gitega, the head of state Pierre Nkurunziza has just put his signature to the new constitution of Burundi,” the official presidential Twitter account announced at 10:30 am
The former rebel leader first came to power in 2005 after a bloody civil war between ethnic Tutsis and Hutus.
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