Domitien Ndayizeye ( born May 2, 1953 in Murango, Kayanza Province ) is a Burundian politician who was President of Burundi from 2003 to 2005.

Along with the main Hutu rebel group, National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy ( FDD ), President Ndayizeye signed a ceasefire agreement at a summit of African leaders in Tanzania in November 2003.

UPRONA President Pierre Buyoya handed over power to Hutu leader Domitien Ndayizeye of the Front for Democracy in Burundi ( a Hutu-based party ) on 30 April 2003.

* 8 October – Domitien Ndayizeye, President of Burundi and Pierre Nkurunziza, the leader of a faction of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy ( CNDD-FDD ) sign an agreement to integrate the armed forces, the police and intelligence services of Burundi, in Pretoria under the facilitation of Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa and Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of South Africa

Beginning in late 2003 and after the ceasefire agreement, he was appointed Minister for Good Governance in the transitional government of President Domitien Ndayizeye.

Under his government, Ndayizeye tried to bridge the gap between the Hutu and the minority Tutsi people of Burundi through cooperation with other presidents in the region such as Museveni of Uganda and Mkapa of Tanzania.

Nkurunziza was the first president chosen through democratic means since the start of the civil war in 1993 and was sworn in on 26 August, replacing transitional president Domitien Ndayizeye.

Ndayizeye remained in office until replaced by Pierre Nkurunziza on August 26, 2005.

On January 15, 2007, he was acquitted on charges of plotting a coup, along with former president Domitien Ndayizeye and three others ; two others were sentenced to long prison terms.

On 5 September 2006, Nzomukunda resigned as Second Vice-President, citing corruption and human rights abuses by the government, as well as casting doubt on the authenticity of a coup plot which saw former president Domitien Ndayizeye arrested a few weeks before on August 21.

In 2004, Ndayizeye proposed a draft constitution to the parliament prior to it being put to the electorate in referendum later in the year.

Buyoya selected as his vice-president Domitien Ndayizeye, a Hutu.

Also in July, Domitien Ndayizeye, a Hutu, took over as president of the transitional government, and Buyoya stepped down.

Four former heads of state-Jean-Baptiste Bagaza ( PARENA ), Pierre Buyoya ( UPRONA ), Sylvestre Ntibantunganya ( FRODEBU ), and the current transitional president Domitien Ndayizeye ( FRODEBU ) will occupy seats in the Senate along with three Twa members.

At the end of his term in 2003, Hutu Vice-President Domitien Ndayizeye took office and appointed a Tutsi ( Alphonse-Marie Kadege ) as vice-president.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

The reports of President Nasser's pledges which Hammarskjold was relaying from Cairo to Washington became increasingly incomprehensible to other diplomats, including the Israeli Foreign Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir.

President Kasavubu became exasperated with Lumumba and fired him.

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

* Revolution of 1930: Second military overthrow of government, in which President Washington Luís was replaced by Getúlio Vargas, who became the Provisional President.

Despite the up-or-out system, under President José Sarney the army became top-heavy as generals began to occupy many positions that previously had been reserved for colonels.

Beech became President of the Curtiss-Wright's airplane division and VP of sales, but became dissatisfied with being so far removed from aircraft production and quit to form Beechcraft, using the original Travel Air facilities and employing many of the same people.

On 11 August 1960, Chad became an independent country and François Tombalbaye became its first President.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

The following year, Raúl Castro became Acting President, replacing his brother as the de facto leader of the country.

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

Former President César Gaviria became Secretary General of the OAS in September 1994 and was reelected in 1999.

In March 2006, the parliament overturned a veto by President Václav Klaus, and the Czech Republic became the first former communist country in Europe to grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships.

Yen's presidency was interim ; Chiang Ching-kuo, who was the Premier, became President after Yen's term ended three years later.

When Chiang became President of China after the Northern Expedition, he carved out Ningxia and Qinghai out of Gansu province, and appointed Muslim Generals as Military Governors of all three provinces: Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, and Ma Qi.

He traveled extensively and became a member of the Foreign Policy Association, and was called upon to advise then – U. S. President John F. Kennedy.

In 1956, Rogers became the first President of the American Academy of Psychotherapists.

Pfeiffer became President and CEO of Compaq in 1991, as a result of a boardroom coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen that forced co-founder Rod Canion to resign as President and CEO.

After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations Trust Territory, remaining under Belgian administration until the separate nations of Rwanda and Burundi gained independence on 1 July 1962.

The post – World War I accords and the League of Nations charter designated the area a British Mandate, except for a small area in the northwest, which was ceded to Belgium and later became Rwanda and Burundi, as well as a small area in the southeast ( Kionga Triangle ), incorporated to Portuguese East Africa ( later Mozambique ).

It was not until 1899 that Burundi became a part of German East Africa.

The city's name was changed from Usumbura to Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in 1962.

When former German East Africa was divided into three mandated territories ( Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanganyika ) Smutsland was one of the proposed names for what became Tanganyika.

In August 1986, he became a founding member and economic policy director of the Hutu-dominated Front for Democracy in Burundi party ( FRODEBU ).

In 1996, he became the first ( and so far, only ) Olympic medalist from Burundi by winning the 5000 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

From that time until 1965, the party also had some Hutu support, and three of its Hutu members, including Pierre Ngendandumwe, became Prime Minister of Burundi.

Ruanda-Urundi was a part of German East Africa under Belgian military occupation from 1916 to 1924, a League of Nations class B mandate of Belgium from 1924 to 1945 and then a United Nations trust territory ( still Belgian ) until 1962, when it became the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi.

After two more years of hurried preparations, the colony became independent on July 1, 1962, broken up along traditional lines as the independent nations of Rwanda and Burundi.

During Burundi's civil war CNDD-FDD was the most significant rebel group active and became a major political party in Burundi.

On June 18, 1963, about a year after Burundi gained independence and amidst efforts to bring about political cooperation between Hutus and the dominant minority Tutsis, Ngendandumwe became Burundi's first Hutu prime minister.

The franc became the currency of Burundi in 1916, when Belgium occupied the former Germany colony and replaced the German East African rupie with the Belgian Congo franc.

His father, Eustache Ngabisha, was elected to the Parliament of Burundi in 1965 and later became governor of two provinces before being killed in 1972 during a period of ethnic violence that claimed the lives of over 300, 000 Burundians and caused many more to go into exile as refugees.

Founded in August 1979, one of its most prominent leaders was the ethnic Hutu intellectual Melchior Ndadaye, who became the first democratically elected president of Burundi in 1993.

Mathias Sinamenye is an Economist by profession and became 2nd Vice-President of Burundi from 12 June 1998 to 1 November 2001, after he was Governor of the Central Bank of Burundi.

In 1995, Minani became President of the Front for Democracy in Burundi ( FRODEBU ).

The assassinations of President Habyarimana of Rwanda and President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi on 6 April 1994 became the pretext for the start of the Rwandan Genocide, which resulted in the deaths of several hundred thousand people, mostly Tutsi, over the next three months.