NDERITU: One Burundian lesson for East Africans in enduring

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NDERITU: One Burundian lesson for East Africans in enduring

In September last year, Doudou Diene, chairman of the commission of inquiry set up by the UN on Burundi, said the country was primed for a genocide.

Source: The East African

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