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Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and jail terms of up to two years if convicted of same-sex

A popular Burundi comedian known as "Kigingi" was arrested this week after poking fun at the president, his family said on Friday.

The UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic is repatriating three military officers on suspicion they committed human rights violations during political unrest in their home country, Burundi, an internal document showed.

UN Security Council ambassadors met Burundi's leaders on Friday to push peace efforts amid renewed violence in the capital of the troubled central African nation.

UN Security Council ambassadors were to meet Burundi's president today after another night of violence in Bujumbura left one person dead and another wounded by gunfire.

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza threatened today to fight any African Union peacekeepers imposed on his country, in his most confrontational comments yet on a mounting political crisis.

Rival Burundi factions held peace talks in Uganda today, resuming long-stalled negotiations aimed at ending months of violence that has raised fears of a return to civil war.

Burundi's rebels came together today for the first time as a force aimed at ousting President Pierre Nkurunziza, after months of bloodshed in the troubled central African country.

Burundi's government on Saturday rejected the African Union's plans to deploy a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to stop escalating violence triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's extended tenure in office, a government spokesman said.

The African Union will send a 5,000 strong force to stop violence in troubled Burundi, giving Bujumbura a four-day deadline to agree but warning it would send troops anyway.

Seventy-nine "enemies" and eight government soldiers died during and after Friday's coordinated attacks on three military bases in Burundi, an army spokesman said today.

An eye witness says 21 people have been found shot dead in a neighborhood of Burundi's capital after the government said an unidentified group carried out coordinated attacks on three military installations elsewhere.

Heavily-armed gunmen launched coordinated assaults on two army barracks in the Burundi capital today leaving dozens dead, mostly attackers, in the worst unrest since a failed May coup, a senior military officer said.

At least two people were killed and a policeman wounded in gun battles in Burundi's capital, police and witnesses said today, as security forces searched opposition strongholds for weapons.

Gunmen executed nine people in Burundi's capital hours before police launched house-to-house searches for weapons today, amid international fears of fresh bloodletting in the central African nation.

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and jail terms of up to two years if convicted of same-sex

A popular Burundi comedian known as "Kigingi" was arrested this week after poking fun at the president, his family said on Friday.

The UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic is repatriating three military officers on suspicion they committed human rights violations during political unrest in their home country, Burundi, an internal document showed.

UN Security Council ambassadors met Burundi's leaders on Friday to push peace efforts amid renewed violence in the capital of the troubled central African nation.

UN Security Council ambassadors were to meet Burundi's president today after another night of violence in Bujumbura left one person dead and another wounded by gunfire.

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza threatened today to fight any African Union peacekeepers imposed on his country, in his most confrontational comments yet on a mounting political crisis.

Rival Burundi factions held peace talks in Uganda today, resuming long-stalled negotiations aimed at ending months of violence that has raised fears of a return to civil war.

Burundi's rebels came together today for the first time as a force aimed at ousting President Pierre Nkurunziza, after months of bloodshed in the troubled central African country.

Burundi's government on Saturday rejected the African Union's plans to deploy a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to stop escalating violence triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's extended tenure in office, a government spokesman said.

The African Union will send a 5,000 strong force to stop violence in troubled Burundi, giving Bujumbura a four-day deadline to agree but warning it would send troops anyway.

Seventy-nine "enemies" and eight government soldiers died during and after Friday's coordinated attacks on three military bases in Burundi, an army spokesman said today.

An eye witness says 21 people have been found shot dead in a neighborhood of Burundi's capital after the government said an unidentified group carried out coordinated attacks on three military installations elsewhere.

Heavily-armed gunmen launched coordinated assaults on two army barracks in the Burundi capital today leaving dozens dead, mostly attackers, in the worst unrest since a failed May coup, a senior military officer said.

At least two people were killed and a policeman wounded in gun battles in Burundi's capital, police and witnesses said today, as security forces searched opposition strongholds for weapons.

Gunmen executed nine people in Burundi's capital hours before police launched house-to-house searches for weapons today, amid international fears of fresh bloodletting in the central African nation.