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Opposition reacts to government’s transition plan

Poor urban dwellers bear the brunt of inadequate water systems. Shadley Lombard/UNEP
Water, sanitation and poverty are inextricably connected.” Without adequate clean water, there can be no escape from poverty.”
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    Opposition groups have been reacting to the government’s proposed “period of stabilisation”, which envisages a 10-year transition. Exiled FRODEBU president Jean Minani told the BBC Kirundi service that the issues would have to be debated by the 18 sides represented at the Arusha talks. “The views supported by Burundians will have to come from Arusha,” he said. However analysts told IRIN that an issue as serious as the future of the country and its transition would also have to be discussed within Burundi, as part of the internal peace process. A spokesman for the rebel CNDD faction of Leonard Nyangoma, meanwhile, said the war would continue until the army was reformed. “People should have an army made up of all ethnic groups,” he said. “This is our position.”

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