2023-07-09 15:52:33
Sheikh Rachid Malachie Niragira (left)
Cheik Rachid Malachie Niragira, Ambassador of Burundi accredited to Egypt died yesterday Saturday. The announcement was made today by Burundian diplomacy.
It was this Sunday, July 9, 2023 that the Burundian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation announced the death of the Ambassador of Burundi to Egypt. Sheikh Rachid Malachie Niragira had been in post in this North African country since April 17, 2021. The death occurred on Saturday in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
The body of the diplomat found in his room
Sources of theAgence Anadolu indicated that the body of the diplomat was found by an employee of the residence, in his room. No details were given on the circumstances of this death. An investigation has been opened to find out more. In a message on Twitter, the Burundian head of state, Évariste Ndayishimiye, expressed his bitterness at this tragedy.
This is not the first time that a diplomat stationed in an African country has passed from life to death. Indeed, on Thursday, November 19, 2020, the body of Denis François, Consul General of France in Tangier, Morocco, was found at the residence of the consulate. The lifeless body of the French diplomat had been discovered by his colleagues in his room around 7 a.m.
Cameroon and Italy in mourning
On Monday, August 12, 2019, Cameroon’s ambassador to Ethiopia died in the Ethiopian capital, following illness. Jacques Alfred Ndoumbe Eboule was also Cameroon’s Ambassador to the African Union, and also Cameroon’s representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
On February 21, 2021, Luca Attanasio, Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, was killed. The diplomat was in a World Food Program (WFP) convoy heading to Virunga Park in the east. Wounded by bullet, Luca Attanasio died in the city of Goma. As well as his bodyguard as well as the WFP driver. As for the death of Cheik Rachid Malachie Niragira, it is total vagueness.
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