US envoy says Burundi government is 'driver' of crisis

[WorldNews]

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A senior US official accused Burundi's government of being behind the central African country's prolonged political crisis, saying Tuesday that the administration was doing everything possible to stop Washington helping civilians. Burundi has been in turmoil since April 2015, when President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a third term, which he went on to win in July, with violence leaving hundreds dead. "The government of Burundi is the driver, not the victim of this current crisis, whether it's on the political side or the economic side," Thomas Perriello, US special envoy for Africa's Great Lakes region, told a press conference in the capital Bujumbura.

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