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Mandela to visit regroupment camps

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    The facilitator in the Arusha peace process on Burundi, former South African president Nelson Mandela, is to visit Burundi from 12-14 June, for the second time in two months. "The facilitator, at a press conference on Wednesday, promised to visit Burundi. The visit is on," Mariane Mudzwa, an official at Mandela foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, told IRIN.
    Mandela met representatives of Burundi civil society in South Africa on Wednesday and said afterwards that, while in Burundi, he would visit regroupment camps (of which he has been highly critical) and prisons, besides meeting government officials, members of the national assembly and representatives of religious organisations. Mandela also announced that
    the next plenary session of the peace talks would take place on 20 July in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha.

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