Cankuzo Province is one of the 18

provinces of Burundi Burundi is divided into eighteen provinces, each named after their respective capital with the exception of Bujumbura Rural. Burundi’s provinces and communes were created on Christmas Day in 1959 by a Belgian colonial decree. They replaced the p ...

. Located in the eastern part of the country, the province covers an area of 1,965 km. The provincial capital is

Cankuzo Cankuzo is a city located in eastern Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Ri ...

. It is Burundi's least populated province.

Communes

Cankuzo Province is divided into five communes; each governed by an elected 25-member council. * Commune of Cankuzo * Commune of Cendajuru * Commune of Gisagara * Commune of Kigamba * Commune of Mishiha

Politics

Direct Communal and

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the r ...

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were held throughout Burundi on 3 June and 4 July 2005, respectively. *In communal council elections, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD- FDD) won a majority of the 125 seats followed by the Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU) and

Union for National Progress The Union for National Progress (french: Union pour le Progrès national, UPRONA) is a nationalist political party in Burundi. It initially emerged as a nationalist united front in opposition to Belgian colonial rule but subsequently became an i ...

(UPRONA). Smaller parties won the remaining seats. *Cankuzo province has four deputies in the National Assembly. They are distributed as follows: CNDD-FDD – 2, FRODEBU – 1, UPRONA – 1.

References

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