Burundi Crisis Escalates Amid Election Boycott

Opposition parties said on Friday they would boycott Burundi's elections in protest at the president's bid for a third term and over concerns voting would not be fair, escalating the African nation's worst political crisis since a civil war ended in 2005. Highlighting international worries about the crisis in a region with a history of ethnic conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said voting should be postponed because he was "deeply concerned over the prevailing...

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