With Burundi's senate elections, the latest in a series, now successfully completed, the international community must give even more support so that the people of the war-torn country can see the benefits of democracy and not fall back into crisis, according to the top United Nations envoy there.
"Burundi has emerged from the crisis but it has been noticed that many countries fall back into crises because they do not receive the necessary support," Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative, Carolyn McAskie, said of the small Central African nation of 6 million that is emerging from decades of ethnically-fuelled conflict between Hutus and Tutsis.
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