AU urges inclusive dialogue to resolve crisis in Burundi

The head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT), Bishop Alex Malasusa, has called for continuous regional and international talks on the violence in Burundi noting that it is the only way to save the country from a full-blown civil war.

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Dar es Salaam — The head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT), Bishop Alex Malasusa, has called for continuous regional and international talks on the violence in Burundi noting that it is the only way to save the country from a full ...
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Since the re-introduction of multipartism elections in Zanzibar have always been controversial. Most of polls ended in chaos. In 1995 for instance, some media outlets announced that Civic United Front (CUF) has won the presidency before the same was refuted by the government.

>Roundtable discussions aimed to ensure peaceful elections in strife-torn Burundi later this year were launched on Thursday in Bujumbura with a plea to stop any election-related violence.

The government yesterday directed seven wards here to negotiate with Ortello Business Cooperation (OBC), a luxury hunting company, to bring to an end a lonstanding land dispute between them.

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NAIROBI: Small destitute Burundi, a central African nation marked by a troubled ethnic history and a deadly civil war, has been mired for eight months in a deepening political crisis that the African Union fears could trigger a genocide.
 
HOW DID BURUNDI'S CRISIS BEGIN? 

The crisis began on April 25 when President Pierre Nkurunziza, who had been in office since 2005, said he planned to run for a third term. The plan was dubbed anti-constitutional by civil society, the opposition, the Catholic...

Belgium advises its citizens to leave Burundi, while the EU says it is cutting staff levels in the African country because of the "rising risk of violence".