{"id":34173,"date":"2026-05-11T07:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34173"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:37:50","slug":"burundi-announces-date-of-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/burundi-announces-date-of-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi announces date of Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Burundi&#8217;s Electoral Commission has announced that the country will hold presidential elections on May 3, 2026.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The decision was made in a meeting boycotted by the opposition parties.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">President Evariste Ndayishimiye has led the east African country of 15 million people, taking over following the death of longtime leader Pierre Nkurunziza in 2020.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Burundi is one of Africa&#8217;s poorest countries and has seen years of internal conflict and repression.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13882,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34173","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Burundi's presidential elections","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34176,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34173\/revisions\/34176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}