Burundi Pro-Government Youth Linked to Violence

African Union leaders meeting in Johannesburg on Sunday are expected to discuss the months of seething popular unrest in Burundi. One UN official has warned the violence was being stoked by pro-government youth militia.

Hopes that fresh elections would lift Burundi out of violence and constitutional crisis, which has engulfed the country since late April, suffered a blow on Thursday (11.06.2015) when 17 political parties threatened to boycott the poll, because they didn't believe it would be free or fair.

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