Topic - Bujumbura

) is the capital, largest city, and main port of Burundi. It ships most of the country's chief export, coffee, as well as cotton, skins, and tin ore. It is on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, the second deepest lake in the world after Lake Baikal. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 file photo, Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza is sworn in for a third term at a ceremony in the parliament in Bujumbura, Burundi. Hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have fled the small East African nation in the two years since President Pierre Nkurunziza set off protests by declaring he would seek another term. (AP Photo/Gildas Ngingo, File)

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Men carry away a dead body in the Nyakabiga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. Burundi's political violence continued Saturday as a number of people were found shot dead in the Nyakabiga neighborhood of the capital, a day after the government said an unidentified group carried out coordinated attacks on three military installations. (AP Photo)

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Police and a member of the Intelligence Services in civilian clothes detain a protester in the Nyakabyga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi. Police fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting the president's seeking a third term. (associated press)

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Demonstrators, some holding palm leaves as a peace sign, celebrate what they perceive to be an attempted military coup d'etat, as they surround a police truck in the capital Bujumbura, Burundi Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Police vanished from the streets of Burundi's capital Wednesday as thousands of people celebrated a rumored coup attempt against President Pierre Nkurunziza. (AP Photo/Berthier Mugiraneza)

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Silvia Marsili, an official of Saverian missionaries' head convent in Parma, Italy, shows a photo of the three Italian missionary nuns, from left, Bernardetta Boggian, Olga Raschietti and Lucia Pulici, found slain in their convent in Burundi, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. The Italian foreign ministry confirmed the slayings in Kamenge, near Bujumbura, Burundi's capital. Pope Francis, in a condolence telegram to Bujumbura's archbishop, said he "learned with great sadness of the murder" of the three "faithful and devout nuns in these tragic circumstances." (AP Photo/Marco Vasini).

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