Balthazar Bigirimana Explained

Balthazar Bigirimana
Office:	Burundian Minister of Public Works & Equipment
Office2:	President of Rally for the People of Burundi
Predecessor2:	Ernest Kabushemeye
Birth Date:	1957
Birth Place:	Kirundo Province
Death Place:	Hôpital Saint Elisabeth in Brussels^[1]
Term End:	^[2]
Office3:	Burundian Ambassador to Belgium of Burundi to Belgium
Predecessor3:	Laurent Kavakure
Successor3:	Félix Ndayisenga

Balthazar Bigirimana was a Burundian politician and diplomat.

• Since 1995, he has been president of the Rally for the People of Burundi (RPB).^[3]
• Bigirimana was an ethnic Hutu from Kirundo province.
• From October 28, 2011 to he was Burundian Ambassador to Belgium.^[4]

Notes and References

1. http://www.arib.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6354 Décès à Bruxelles de l’Ambassadeur Balthazar Bigirimana
2. Gregory R. Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs Handbook, International Media Corporation Ltd, Copley & Associates, 1994, p. 250
3. Book: Africa South of the Sahara 2004 (33rd ed.) . 2003. Psychology Press. 978-1-85743-183-4. Europa Publications. 5 November 2010. 157.
4. H.E. Ambassador Balthazar Bigirimana, Head of the Mission of Burundi, to the EU, on the right, and José Manuel Barroso, http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/photo/photoDetails.cfm?sitelang=en&mgid=296#3