Burundi declared a week of mourning after President Pierre Nkurunziza died just weeks before he would have left office. He was 56. Nkurunziza was admitted to a hospital on Saturday night and died on Monday of cardiac arrest, the government announced on Tuesday.

Houthi insurgents have ordered late-night secret burials for victims of the coronavirus and punished those who report the effects of the pandemic, residents of Yemen’s northern region said. Insurgents in the area officially reported only four infections since the outbreak began, while local unions recorded 87 deaths between mid-May and early June. Some gravediggers said the rebels instructed them to refer to the dead as “unidentified bodies from the war.”

North Korea severed all communication lines with South Korea on Tuesday in response to activists sending anti-government leaflets across the border. North Korea’s Central News Agency said the move is the first step in completely shutting down all contact with the South. The affected services include communication through the inter-Korean liaison office and hotlines for their militaries and presidential offices.

A website that published up-to-date reports on COVID-19 cases and deaths in Brazil disappeared on Friday. When the country’s Health Ministry put the site back up on Saturday, it only showed tallies from the previous 24 hours. Johns Hopkins University on Monday morning showed Brazil in second place globally for the most confirmed cases at nearly 692,000 and third in the number of deaths at more than 34,400. Brazil is the seventh most populous nation in the world.

On Sunday, thousands of protesters marched through Compton, Calif., as about a dozen police officers watched without engaging. Protests across the country remained peaceful two weeks after George Floyd, an African American man, died in the custody of Minneapolis police. In New York, police officers moved barricades at the Trump International Hotel near Columbus Circle to allow protesters to pass. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio lifted the city’s curfew on Sunday after protests a day earlier led to only four arrests.

Cristobal made landfall on the southeast Louisiana coast on Sunday, packing winds of 50 miles per hour. The storm was below hurricane strength as it moved inland, but forecasters cautioned its effects could stretch some 180 miles along the Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center said Cristobal will weaken into a tropical depression today as it moves across southeastern Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri before entering Canada on Wednesday.

An Australian court granted a last-minute appeal to allow an anti-racism march in Sydney on Saturday despite concerns about the coronavirus. Demonstrators had already begun to gather outside Sydney’s Town Hall when the court ruled they could lawfully protest just 30 minutes before the march was scheduled to begin, The Guardian reported.