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Fuel prices hiked

    NAIROBI

    The authorities have warned that fuel rationing may be implemented to restore order to the sector, Burundi radio reported on Tuesday. In comments broadcast by the radio, Commerce Minister Gervais Nkanagu announced that fuel prices had been increased. He said the move had been necessary because of a threefold increase in the international price of fuel, the Burundi currency devaluation and problems along Burundi’s supply route - from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma in western Tanzania and from Eldoret in Kenya to Bujumbura. Super grade petrol now cost 570 Burundi francs a litre, diesel 520 francs a litre and kerosene 450 francs a litre.

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