Burundi Expels the Director of Belgian Development Cooperation

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For having briefly shared on a social network an article by the South African weekly The Continent denouncing shortages and the black fuel market in Burundi, the director of the agency Enabel de coopération au développement was declared persona non grata. He must leave the country on Saturday 6 September. The decision of the Burundian authorities directly targets David Leyssens, representative of Enabel in Bujumbura for a year. The interested pe…