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    The government has postponed plans to dismantle more regroupment sites in Bujumbura Rural province due to prevailing insecurity in the area, Burundi's Radio Umwizero reported on Wednesday. The second phase of the dismantlement programme, which had been due to start on Wednesday, targeted nine camps in Kabezi, Mageyo, Kigezi, Kavumu, Nyabibondo, Ruyaga, Muyaga, Kibuye and Kwigera. The radio quoted provincial governor Balthazar Ntamahungiro as saying insecurity around those camps "did not allow for
    the set timetable to be adhered to." A UN official in Bujumbura confirmed the postponement. "The security situation is not improving and in fact is worsening in Bujumbura Rural, so we don't know what this means" for future dismantlement operations, the official told IRIN on Thursday.

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