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DRC, Burundi security still troubling

    NAIROBI
    Prime Minister Patrick Sumaye has said the security situation in Burundi and DRC is still unsatisfactory and continued fighting in the two countries has contributed to the swelling of refugee numbers in Tanzania. In an address to parliament on Friday, reported by Tanzanian radio, he said his country was anxious to see lasting peace in the two countries, and praised the appointments of former South African president Nelson Mandela and former Botswanan president Ketumile Masire as mediators for the Burundi and DRC conflicts respectively.

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