Burundi's former Prime Minister and number 2 in power, General Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, was imprisoned Monday, May 8 in Ngozi prison, in the North. He faces up to 30 years in prison, according to a lawyer.

An entire wing occupied so far by a hundred detainees was evacuated to welcome him. This while 1,500 other detainees crowd into the 300 or so places that remain, in conditions described as "inhumane" by human rights organizations.