15-02-2016 13:11 via news.yahoo.com

EU ready to impose more sanctions on Burundi

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers said on Monday they were prepared to strengthen economic sanctions on Burundi following the failure of talks to end a political crisis in the Central African country in which more than 440 people have been killed. The United Nations has repeatedly warned of Burundi sliding back into an ethnically charged conflict, more than a decade after a civil war that killed 300,000, and said it has reports of mass graves and gang-rapes by
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