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Burundi president faces emerging armed rebellion as vote looms

NAIROBI, KENYA: Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza may find an election victory he is assured of this month swiftly overshadowed by the emergence of an armed insurgency in a nation at the heart of one of Africa's most combustible regions.

After weeks of protests against the president's bid for a third term, a general involved in a failed coup says he is mobilising troops, grenade attacks echo round the capital and armed clashes have erupted in the north of a nation still scarred by civil war.

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