Burundi: calm days, violent nights

[WorldNews]

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By day, the streets of Burundi's capital Bujumbura are filled with the sounds of market traders and the honking horns of traffic in the lakeside city. By night, they echo instead to the rattle of gunfire as the violence unleashed by President Pierre Nkurunziza's successful bid for a third term in office rumbles on. While the crushing of anti-government demonstrations have restored a superficial normality to Bujumbura -- the barricades are torn down, streets cleaned up and the fires put out -- behind the veneer lies an abiding fear.

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