International Desk: Burundi President Pierre buyoya karonaya become infected have died in Paris. The AFP news agency quoted some of his relatives as saying on Friday.

A member of his family said President Pierre Buoy had died last night in Paris. He was 61 years old at the time of his death. He served as the African Union's special envoy to Mali and Sahel from 2012 to November this year.

He was hospitalized last week. He resigned as special envoy to the African Union in 1993 after being sentenced to life in Burundi for plotting to assassinate his predecessor. However, Pierre Buoya called the allegations against him politically motivated.

Ethnically he is Tutsi. He came to power in a coup in 1986, one of the smallest countries in Africa. In 1993, with the first democratic election, Hutu's Melchair Nadadai stepped down.

But just four months after coming to power, a radical Tutsi army assassinated Nadadi. As a result, civil war broke out between Hutu and Tutsi. After a coup, he returned to power in 1996 and served until 2003.

Since the outbreak of the civil war in 1993, three lakh people were killed by 2006. In 2000, Pierre Buoya signed the Arusha Agreement. He resigned in 2003 as per the agreement.