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Live: Instability in Burundi visualised

Big data takes the temperature of Burundi's crisis

Protestors in the Bujumbura neighbourhood of Musaga pretend to feed beer to a dead bird that is intended to represent, and to denigrate, Burundi’s ruling party, whose symbol is an eagle. Jessica Hatcher/IRIN
Protestors denigrate Burundi ruling party by feeding beer to a dead bird

This graphic, updated automatically, shows the levels of instability in Burundi. The data is generated by machine analysis of thousands of news sources, calculated by the GDELT media monitoring system.

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