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Burundi orders top WHO official to leave country

Burundi has ordered the expulsion of the World Health Organization's (WHO) expert team coordinating the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic, just days before a presidential election.

The foreign ministry, in a letter to WHO Africa headquarters and seen by AFP on Wednesday, said the UN agency's representative in Burundi and his three colleagues "are declared persona non grata and as such, must leave the territory of Burundi" by Friday.

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