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Burundi asks UNHRC to leave country

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza. He has ordered the UNHRC to leave the country over its "complicity" in a report accusing Bujumbura of systematic abuses and warning of a risk of genocide. [Courtesy]

The Burundi government has ordered the United Nations Human Rights Council to shut its office in the country within two months, foreign ministry and UN sources told AFP.

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