August 21, 2015
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4:50Now PlayingPresident Pierre Nkurunziza has made a clarion call, urging all Burundians who fled to neighbouring countries due to the violence, to return home now that he has been sworn in as Burundi's president for the 3rd time.
The president is also calling on armed rebels who have vowed to use force to remove him from office, to end violence which has continued since he was declared the winner of July's vote.
Burundi's opposition boycotted the poll, arguing, along with western powers, that Nkurunziza was violating the constitution and provisions of a peace deal that ended a 1993-2005 civil war between the Hutu majority and Tutsi minority.
Although months of protests and an attempted coup in May were quelled, sporadic violence and killings continue to take place in the capital and some rural districts.
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