US citizens to leave Burundi

The US state department warns US citizens not to travel to Burundi as political violence continues, with 87 people killed on Friday.

State department warns American citizens to leave the country after saying the security situation "remains unpredictable and unstable".

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused Burundi’s leaders of carrying out “massacres” on their people in his most critical speech yet of the crisis in the troubled neighbouring state.

Burundi's ruling party says all citizens of its former colonial power, Belgium, should leave the country in a further sign of worsening tensions.

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