International Business Times quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the dissent and violence dominating Burundi’s political climate:

“On one hand, it works to play the opposition but they essentially leave themselves open to co-opting a deal,” said J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC “Everything is not always as it appears in Burundi. No doubt there’s been abuses, but there’s a lot of posturing going on.”

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