US tells its citizens to leave Burundi

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

The United States on Sunday ordered non-emergency US government personnel and dependents to leave violence-torn Burundi and warned other Americans to get out “as soon as it is feasible to do so”.

>Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi on Saturday said the talk about his perceived presidential ambitions was “nonsense”, but stressed that nobody will stop him when he decides to stand for any elective position.

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.

The East African Community (EAC) has been challenged to act accordingly in resolving the political crisis in Burundi and end the killings.

The President of the Republic of Burundi’s Head of State, H.E. Pierre Nkurunziza today opened the 5th Meeting of the 3rd Session of the 3rd East African Legislative Assembly in Bujumbura, Burundi.  The President remarked that EALA had played a key role in bringing together the citizens of the region and hailed the Assembly for adhering to the principle of rotation in its meetings.  “We are all aware that EALA plays a key role in bringing the people of East Africa on board of the integration...

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