With the undeniable fact that Evariste Ndayishimiye, widely known as Neva, has done nothing but misgovern, mislead, and mismanage Burundi since assuming office in 2020, the “mafia-styled” cartel of self-proclaimed rogue Generals ruling the country is finally crumbling—and taking down the entire nation with it.
A fierce internal crisis has erupted between Ndayishimiye and several top commanders, forcing the embattled president to abruptly flood his State House with 7 senior military officers to counter growing discontent. Ndayishimiye is panicked, and he deeply fears an impending coup d’état.
Sources within the State House point to a toxic mix of internal betrayal, but the core of the conflict traces directly to the ongoing war in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC. Ndayishimiye literally rented out his national soldiers to Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi in a reckless alliance with the infamous FDLR genocidaires.
Selfishly calculating only his personal financial gains, Ndayishimiye massively underestimated the task at hand and marched his army straight into a bloodbath. Now, as thousands of Burundian soldiers frequently return in body bags, tensions within the military ranks have reached historic, explosive peaks.
Yet, despite the mounting death toll of young soldiers, the CNDD-FDD Generals’ infighting is not born out of patriotism; it is a greedy, bitter cake-sharing dispute. The military elite are furious that Ndayishimiye is hoarding the lucrative Tshisekedi paychecks for himself.
A powerful subgroup of Generals hailing from Cibitoke—on the volatile DRC-Burundi border—have made their terms clear: they must get their cut of the Tshisekedi money if the Ndayishimiye-Tshisekedi-FDLR alliance is to continue operating out of their backyard.
This rogue faction includes heavyweights like the powerful Senate President and former Prime Minister, General Ndirakobuca Gervais (aka Ndakugarika), alongside the current Military Chief of Cabinet, General Silas Ntigurirwa. They feel deeply cheated.
While Ndayishimiye pockets the millions to deploy forces from Cibitoke, he inevitably places their strategic border town in the line of fire. In retaliation, this faction has quietly begun leaking damaging intel, exposing exactly how Ndayishimiye and his wife siphon billions in state funds into offshore bank accounts.
For Ndayishimiye, the Cibitoke subgroup represents a direct, existential threat to his unilateral and absolute rule. This faction existed long before his ascension to power in 2020 and wielded massive leverage under his predecessor.
Paralyzed by the fear of a sudden coup, Ndayishimiye swiftly bypassed normal protocols to install 6 Colonels and a Lieutenant-Colonel directly into State House, placing them inside Silas Ntigurirwa’s military cabinet to spy on and neutralize the threat. Furthermore, Ndayishimiye has announced a ruthless economic crackdown on the business interests of the Cibitoke faction—cynically masking this targeted political warfare as a public “crackdown on corruption.”
Meanwhile, as Ndayishimiye wages this hidden cold war against his own Cibitoke Generals, ordinary Burundians pay the ultimate price. The country continues to sink into absolute, crushing poverty. The population is left stranded with no fuel, no stable electricity, and no clean water supply, all while more than 20,000 soldiers are traded away like commodities, sent to certain death in the jungles of the DRC.
The ruling elite are fighting over the spoils of war, but it is Burundi itself that is bleeding out.
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