A Burundian member of the East African Legislative Assembly was shot dead on Wednesday in what Rwanda’s foreign minister called an assassination in a country in violent political turmoil.
Hafsa Mossi, a former minister in President Pierre Nkurunziza’s government, was “shot by criminals” in the capital Bujumbura, the president’s media adviser Willy Nyamitwe tweeted.
More than 450 people have been killed since Nkurunziza pursued and won a third term last year, a move that his opponents say violated the constitution and a peace deal that ended a civil war in 2005.
Government officials and members of the opposition have been among those killed in tit-for-tat violence by rival sides.
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