Burundi rivals fail to end tensions days before polls

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 Arrests, harassment, a clampdown on free speech: with less than a year before elections in Burundi, critics say the government is doing all it can clamp down on political challengers.

>Strife-torn Burundi cannot hold polls now because of security concerns, Tanzania’s Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation  minister Bernard Membe said in Dar es Salaam yesterday.

Arusha. The United Nations says it wants lasting peace and stability in Burundi ahead of next year’s general election.