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The former president of Burundi, Pierre Buyoya, has died in France of Covid-19 at the age of 71. Buyoya twice served as president of one of the smallest - and poorest- countries in Africa.
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IN: Buyoya had been hospitalised for days in Mali's capital Bamako.
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