Burundi: Vice president resigns, attacking ruling party chairman

Burundi's second vice president, Alice Nzomukunda, resigned on Tuesday in protest at interference by the chairman of the ruling party. "The government's hands are tied by [the chairman] Hussein Radjabu," Nzomukunda said at a news conference in the capital, Bujumbura. Alice Nzomukunda was Burundi's second highest ranking official in the ruling party.