Burundi's President Campaigns for Controversial Third Term

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has intensified his re-election bid ahead of the July 15 presidential poll, according to presidential spokesperson Gervais Abayeho. “The president is on a campaign trail in the last few days and people are turning out in large numbers from his CNDD-FDD party, and the operation is going quite well in the countryside and even the capital, Bujumbura,” said Abayeho. But opposition groups say they will not participate in the election, after accusing...

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