Laurent Kavakure (born January 5, 1959) is a
Burundi
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is located in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa, with a population of over 14 million peop ...
an diplomat and politician who served the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Burundi from November 2011 to May 2015.
Kavakure was born in Tangara,
Ngozi Province. He was Burundi's Ambassador to
Belgium
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from 2006 to 2010.
Kavakure was dismissed from his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs on May 18, 2015, shortly after a failed coup attempt during the
2015 Burundian unrest
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, which started after President
Pierre Nkurunziza
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stated he wished to run for office a third time. Observers stated that his dismissal might be due to Kavakure failing to convince other states to support the
2015 presidential elections.
In August 2024, Kavakure was voted as a new commissioner in the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Burundi alongside 12 other commissioner of which; Stella Budiriganya (former ambassador to India) and Selemani Mossi (former ambassador to Egypt).
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References
1959 births
Living people
Foreign ministers of Burundi
Ambassadors of Burundi to Belgium
People from Ngozi Province
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