Burundi may face sanctions, AU warns

The EU imposes sanctions on three Burundi officials accused of ordering the use of excessive force against protestors, along with a coup plotter.

Ivory Coast could face sanctions over a pitch invasion that followed their qualification for the Africa Cup of Nations finals.

The European Union is imposing sanctions on two South Sudanese military leaders accused of obstructing the country's peace process.

The EU is readying sanctions against four associates of Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza after he won a disputed third term, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.

The US is to place four current and former officials in Burundi under sanctions in connection with the continuing violence there.

The prosecutor of the world’s only permanent war crimes court warned late Friday she was ready to act if wide-scale abuses were committed in Burundi, which has been rocked by months of political unrest.

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Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza will bid for a third term in June elections, his spokesman said Sunday, defying campaigners who say such a move would violate the constitution and risk violence.

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