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Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “Nkurunziza's pursuit of non-inclusive, non-consensual elections sparked the current crisis.”

On the recordDecember 8, 2015
Nkurunziza's pursuit of non-inclusive, non-consensual elections sparked the current crisis.
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Thomas-Greenfield describes the electoral issues leading to Burundi's crisis.

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