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Draft reforms scrap the need for search warrants for serious offences and authorise night searches.
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Chinese VP Li Yuanchao is on a three-day visit to conflict-hit Burundi.
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Burundi opposition claims government is using hunger as a 'weapon of mass destruction'
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Burundi: State-funded media watchdog refuses to support re-opening of private radio RPA
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