Alain Guillaume Bunyoni’s has been sacked after President Ndayishimiye, who has been in power for just over two years, last week warned of a coup plot against him. He claimed unnamed “powerful people” were plotting a coup against him.

« Do you think an army general can be threatened by saying they will make a coup? Who is that person? Whoever it is should come and in the name of God I will defeat him, » Ndayishimiye had warned at a meeting of government officials on Friday.

Burundi’s parliament on Wednesday approved the appointment of a new prime minister after President Evariste Ndayishimiye warned last week of a possible coup plot against him. It has voted unanimously to accept Gervais Ndirakobuca as prime minister following nomination by President Évariste Ndayishimiye. All 113 MPs attending the Wednesday morning session voted in favour of the president’s proposal to dismiss current Prime Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni.