The president of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, has died at the age of 55, just weeks before he was due to step down from office.
A government statement says he had a heart attack, but there is speculation that he may have contracted coronavirus.
President Nkurunziza came to power in 2005 as part of a peace deal that ended a years-long civil war.

Al Jazeera’s Raheela Mahomed looks back at his life.

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