Hold a “meaningful, serious” dialogue with the African country’s opposition -John Kerry
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US Secretary of State, John Kerry, on Friday called Burundi’s election “deeply flawed” and urged President Pierre Nkurunziza to hold a Hold a ''meaningful, serious'' dialogue with the African country’s opposition, the State Department said in a statement. Nkurunziza won a third term in office on Friday after the opposition boycotted the vote, accusing him of violating the constitution by running for re-election. Nkurunziza’s decision to seek a third term plunged Burundi into its biggest crisis since an ethnically charged civil war ended in 2005.