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Urgent: Burundi's president chosen to run for 3rd term: source

Xinhua, April 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Burundi's incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza has been chosen as the candidate of the ruling party to run for the coming election, a party source said on Saturday.

The source requiring anonymity said the decision was made at the party meeting of the ruling CNDD-FDD on Saturday. And the party calls for "calmness" from the opposition. Endi