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Minister lifts ban on second radio station

    NAIROBI

    A privately owned radio station in Burundi, Radio Publique Africaine, resumed broadcasting on Saturday after Communications Minister Albert Mbonerane lifted an indefinite ban he had imposed, state-owned Radio Burundi reported.

    It said that the new measure followed discussions between the minister and an RPA director. The move follows the removal of a similar ban on another private broadcaster, Radio Isanganiro.

    Both radio stations had been suspended for broadcasting interviews with the spokesman of Agathon Rwasa's faction of the Forces nationales de liberation rebel group.

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