After two attacks in just three weeks, people are being asked to report on unknown visitors and to leave the lights on
Bujumbura — Burundi’s government is asking families to record and notify authorities of any guests and spy on their neighbours’ visitors following a spate of cross-border attacks.
The new measures follow two attacks in the span of three weeks by gunmen that crossed over into the East African country from neighbouring countries. In the first, at least 14 people were killed in October 21 clashes between security forces and Burundi rebel militia known as RED Tabara sheltering in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
“People must report to authorities whenever they see strange things and everyone should collaborate with security committees,” interior minister Pascal Barandagiye said in the northwestern region of Bubanza, near the border with the DRC, in comments broadcast on National Radio.Tensions between the two nations started in 2015 after a failed coup in Burundi. The plotters allegedly fled to Rwanda, which refused to hand them over, according to Burundian authorities.
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