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Strike could lead to general insecurity

    NAIROBI

    Burundi’s Interior Minister Colonel Ascension Twagiramungu has warned that the strike action called by trade unions could result in the deterioration of security countrywide. Burundi radio quoted him as saying the “trade union movement appears more like a political and subversive movement rather than a trade union movement”. Regional analysts have warned that a trade union strike in the capital Bujumbura earlier this week demonstrated mounting anger against President Pierre Buyoya’s economic policies, which are causing untold hardship to many sections of the population.

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