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Arusha talks suspended for a day

    NAIROBI

    Participants in the ongoing peace talks in Arusha suspended the meetings for 24 hours on Tuesday, in commemoration of the victims of the latest violence in Burundi, the Hirondelle news agency reported. It said a statement issued by the mainly-Tutsi parties at the talks called for the suspension, in view of a "two-week campaign of cowardly killings on Burundi's roads by terrorist groups who have been prevented from attending
    the Arusha talks". Hirondelle noted that some 40 people have been killed in the recent spate of violence which targets vehicles on the main roads leading to Bujumbura.

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