Burundi Politics

Burundi's government said, on Monday, efforts to collect illegal arms were proceeding peacefully. President Pierre Nkurunziza had set a Nov. 7 deadline for people to surrender illegal arms. The president said those who did not hand over arms would be treated as criminals. The latest violence came in an attack on a Bujumbura bar on Saturday that witnesses said killed nine people. For the latest on the situation, Apollinaire Niyirora, a Burundi journalist, joins VOA’s Vincent Makori live via phone from Bujumbura.