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Two Burundi officials have been arrested after their town’s football team allegedly 'roughed up' President Pierre Nkurunziza, who was playing with his personal team, legal sources and witnesses said Friday.
A legal source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the administrator of the northern town of Kiremba as well as his deputy, who is in charge of sport, had been charged with 'conspiracy against the president' on Thursday. It all started when the Kiremba team played a match earlier this month against Nkurunziza’s Allelua FC team, which includes the president.
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