Come Home and Sell the Coffee: Burundi Insists Crisis Is Over

  • African nation wants to draw line under three-year upheaval
  • Refugee, insecurity issues may be obstacles to economic plans
President Pierre NkurunzizaRenovat Ndabashinze/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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The crisis is over: now dig some mines and grow some coffee.

That’s the message from Burundi’s government as it seeks to draw a line under three years of deadly political upheaval, touting plans for a mining- and agriculture-led economic resurgence and a vote for a successor to President Pierre Nkurunziza.