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Use Obama visit to help resolve Burundi crisis, Potus told

The international community has asked US President Barack Obama to suggest ways of resolving the political crisis in Burundi. This is amid the violence that engulfed the controversial Burundi Presidential election that President Pierre Nkurunziza is expected to win.

Addressing the media during the launch of a report on Excessive Force in Policing Demonstration in Burundi, Amnesty International Deputy Regional Director Sarah Jackson said President Obama should use his visit to Kenya to address the situation in Burundi.

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