Burundi Commissioner: Free Press Should Be Barred From 2020 Poll

A senior Burundi election official has called for independent media to be barred from covering the East African country's presidential polls in 2020, local press and witnesses reported Wednesday. Jean Anastase Hicuburund, from the National Independent Electoral Commission, urged that official steps be taken to "block the way for those media who do not want to follow the path taken by the government." "They have done everything to bring the country to its knees,"...

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