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Nkurunziza's wife still on treatment in Kenya

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza with his wife Denise in Bujumbura in 2017. Denise is being treated at Aga Khan University Hospital in Kenya's capital Nairobi after contracting Covid-19. FILE PHOTO

By  NASIBO KABALE

Nairobi,

Outgoing Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza succumbed to a heart attack in Bujumbura while his wife, Denise Bucumi Nkurunziza, is still receiving treatment at the Aga Khan University Hospital, in Kenya's capital Nairobi.

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