Nearly four months after being arrested for espionage, former Rwandan minister, Jacques Bihozagara has died in jail in Burundi.
Mr Bihozagara was dead within minutes of arriving at the prison hospital, according to fellow prisoners.
The successor to Jacques Bihozagara as Rwanda’s ambassador to Belgium has called the death an assassination.
A Rwandan foreign ministry official told AFP news agency that he had been illegally detained and urged the authorities to clarify this sudden death, “which raises many questions”.
Source: Nigeriana
