Burundi: Elections and peace

After a decade of civil war, Burundi has a chance for real peace but only if it holds to its tight election schedule - five months with a constitutional referendum, local, national assembly and senate elections, and finally selection of the president by parliament. The sequence is ambitious but necessary to finalise a difficult peace process, says the International Crisis Group in a new report, available in French from their website.
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