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=Pierre Nkurunziza - President of Burundi=


 * Was the leader of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD)
 * Elected as President (august 2005) in the first democratic election since the civil war
 * This vote was one of the final steps in a peace process intended to end years of fighting between Hutu rebels and the Tutsi-controlled army
 * He was re-elected in the June 2010 presidential polls
 * He pledged to strive for unity and faced the challenges of reassuring the Tutsi minority.
 * A civil war between the Tutsi and the Hutu ethnic groups were going on in the years before Nkurunziza was elected
 * A power-sharing government was set up in 2001 and most of the rebel groups agreed to a ceasefire. Four years later Burundians voted in the first parliamentary elections since the start of the civil war.

= = =Works Cited= BBC News - Burundi Country Profile Mo Ibrahim Wikipedia Burundi Embassy
 * 1) Pierre Nkurunziza
 * 2) Pierre Nkurunziza is the President of (The Republic of) Burrundi. Burundi is located to the east of the Congo and to the south of Rwanda. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, partly due to the fact that its landlocked. 80 percent of the citizens live in poverty. Burundi's population has been steadily increasing since the 1960s and now is around 8.3 million. There are 3 social groups in Burundi. Hutu (85%), Tutsi (14%) and Twa (1%).They speak the same language, Kirundi, they have the same values and have the same lifestyle, agricultural and farming.
 * 3) Pierre Nkurunziza is a former Hutu rebel leader. In 2003 and after the cease fire agreement, he was appointed Minister for Good Governance in the transitional government of President Domitien Ndayizeye. He was selected as president by parliamentarians for the first time in August 2005 after his Force for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) won parliamentary elections a few weeks earlier.
 * 4) Joseph Kabila, president of the Dominican Republic of Congo, reflects the ideas of Pierre Nkurunziza because they both believe in rebuilding their countries after the genocide and ethnic fighting. Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, is on the same boat. Most people associate all of the fighting between the Hutu and Tutsi with the Democratic Republic and Congo but what they don't realize is that Burundi is right in the middle of them. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is the president of Somalia. With all the pirating going on in Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is guiding his country through a rebuilding, transitional period much like Pierre Nkurunziza is doing with Burundi. Pierre Nkuruziza, Joseph Kabila, Paul Kagame, and Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed are all the leaders of their respective countries during tough times. The rest of the world has a bad image of these countries and these presidents have to fix that. They all believe in a democratic government where the citizens vote for their leaders which is how they came into power.
 * 5) The Pierre Nkuruziza-lead Burundi gets a 50 from the Mo Ibrahim Foundation for Safety and Rule of Law. Its Participation and Human Rights receives a 49 from the Mo Ibrahim foundation. In the Sustainable Economic Opportunity category, Burundi receives a 42. Burundi gets a 39 in Human Development. These low scores are due to Burundi's rebuilding and transitional period. It's scores during the civil wars were most likely much lower than they are now. Pierre Nkuruziza deserves the Mo Ibrahim prize because he is slowly increasing the essential areas of his country's wellbeing.