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Tanzania, Burundi to extradite suspected criminals

    NAIROBI

    The defence ministers of Burundi and Tanzania, meeting in Tanzania, have called for more information exchange between the two countries’ defence forces and “advance coordination” of pending military operations on either side of the common border. The Tanzanian ‘Guardian’ daily reported on Friday that Colonel Cyrille Ndayirukiye and his Tanzanian counterpart Edgar Maokola-Majogo also agreed to extradite suspected criminals, but not to use excessive force when arresting them. In a joint statement, the two ministers “identified the persistence of a crisis in Burundi and the presence of some criminal elements within the refugee community in Tanzania as two major causes of insecurity in Burundi”.

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