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UNICEF's Bellamy to visit on 20 February

    NAIROBI

    UNICEF announced on Tuesday that Executive Director Carol Bellamy would this week start a four-nation 14-day tour of Africa which will see her visiting Burundi on 20-21 February.
    "I hope this trip will help bring attention to the enormous challenges facing the children and young people of Africa," she said shortly before departing New York. In Burundi, Bellamy will hold talks with national leaders and UNICEF local staff
    focusing on efforts to end conflict in the country. UNICEF said in a statement that conflict in Burundi had left tens of thousands of people homeless and last year claimed the life of UNICEF's top country official in the only assassination of a UNICEF Representative in the agency's 54 years.

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