{"id":47897,"date":"2023-04-20T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/burundi-launches-manhunt-for-ex-prime-minister-amid-allegations-of-coup-plot\/"},"modified":"2023-04-22T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T09:02:19","slug":"burundi-launches-manhunt-for-ex-prime-minister-amid-allegations-of-coup-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/burundi-launches-manhunt-for-ex-prime-minister-amid-allegations-of-coup-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi launches manhunt for Ex-Prime Minister amid allegations of coup plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bunyoni, who previously served as the country&#8217;s police chief and security minister, was removed from office last September in the first significant government reshuffle since President Evariste Ndayishimiye took office in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Police and intelligence officers reportedly searched three of Bunyoni&#8217;s properties on Monday but found no evidence of his whereabouts, as per local security and media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Martin Niteretse stated at a press conference on Wednesday that the search for Bunyoni is ongoing, but he did not disclose the motives behind the operation.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Burundian military official, who spoke to the AFP news agency on condition of anonymity, revealed that the former prime minister had been warned of the impending manhunt and &#8220;disappeared into the wild&#8221; before the arrival of the police. <\/p>\n<p>The authorities have arrested a senior police officer for allegedly tipping off Bunyoni about the search operations.<\/p>\n<p>Niteretse confirmed the arrest of a police colonel but did not provide further details. <\/p>\n<p>Bunyoni, a prominent figure in the ruling CNDD-FDD party, was appointed prime minister in 2020 and dismissed shortly after President Ndayishimiye warned of a &#8220;coup plot&#8221; against him. <\/p>\n<p>Bunyoni was considered the leader of the &#8220;hardliners&#8221; among Burundi&#8217;s generals, who hold substantial political power in the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47393 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/527c25ce-b740-48ca-af86-6cb987b9d49e_w1200_r1-140e5.jpg\" alt=\"Burundian Ex-Prime Minister has gone missing. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Burundian government has launched a manhunt for former Prime Minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, who was dismissed seven months ago during a high-level political purge.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47897"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47897"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}