{"id":48030,"date":"2023-05-09T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-burundi-premier-bunyoni-in-court-on-security-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:48:51","slug":"former-burundi-premier-bunyoni-in-court-on-security-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-burundi-premier-bunyoni-in-court-on-security-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Bunyoni faces charges including undermining national security and insulting the president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was arrested last month in Bujumbura, on the eve of his 51st birthday. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses have told AFP that Bunyoni appeared in court clad in green prison uniforms and handcuffed. The court extended his pre-trial detention at Ngozi Prison in the north of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Bunyoni, a former police chief and minister of internal security, was replaced by Gervais Ndirakobuca after President Evariste Ndayishimiye took office. <\/p>\n<p>Ndayishimiye had warned of a &#8220;coup&#8221; plot against him, and Bunyoni was seen as the head of a group of military leaders known as &#8220;the generals&#8221; who wielded political power in Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>Bunyoni&#8217;s charges include undermining the internal security of the state, undermining the proper functioning of the national economy, illegal enrichment, illegal possession of weapons, and insulting the president.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47676 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bunyoni-data-7132c.jpg\" alt=\"Former Burundian PM, Bunyoni faces charges including undermining national security and insulting the president.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Burundi&#8217;s former Prime Minister, Gen Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, who was held the position from mid-2020 to September 2022, appeared in court on Monday accused of multiple charges, including undermining national security and insulting the president, AFP has reported.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-48030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/48030","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=48030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48030"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=48030"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=48030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}