In Burundi, registration for controversial constitutional referendum reaches five million

More than five million people have signed up to vote in Burundi’s controversial constitutional referendum in May and elections in 2020, which could allow President Pierre Nkurunziza to remain in power until 2034. By the end of the inscription process on Saturday, “a total of 5,000,742 people” signed up, including Burundians living abroad, Pierre-Claver Ndayicariye, the chairman of the Independe[...] Read more here: https://citizen.co.za/news/news-africa/1827921/burundi-troubles-referendum-cons…