2020 elections in Burundi coming up amidst fears of political violence

Burundians demonstrate in Bujumbura in 2015 after the CNDD-FDD party designated President Pierre Nkurunzinza as its candidate. The nation will hold its next election in 2020. [File, Standard]

The people of Burundi will go to the ballot in May 2020 to elect their new leader when the current President Pierre Nkurunzinza’s term officially comes to an end.

That is if the president keeps his word not to vie again in spite of a referendum in 2018 that changed the constitutional limitations of age limits.