Domitien Ndayizeye

Domitien Ndayizeye (born 2 May 1953) is a Burundian politician who served as the eighth president of Burundi from 2003 to 2005. A member of the Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU), he previously served as the first vice president under President Pierre Buyoya from 2001 to 2003.

Ndayizeye currently serves as head of the National Gathering for Change (Rassemblement National pour le Changement, RANAC).

In 1994 he was appointed director of the National Intelligence Service by President Cyprien Ntaryamira.

In 2004, Ndayizeye proposed a draft constitution to the parliament prior to it being put to the electorate in referendum later in the year. Relations with the Tutsi group were strained, reflected in their boycotting of the legislative session due to consider the proposal. Due to a lack of preparation, the ballot was postponed to late November 2004.

Burundi is still trying to emerge from a civil war that began in 1993 when several groups drawn from the large Hutu majority took up arms against a government and army then dominated by a Tutsi elite.

The interim government pledged to more equitably share power between the two main ethnic groups.

On 21 August 2006, Ndayizeye was arrested...