Burundi to shut UN rights office: sources

Protestors march past the Rwandan embassy in Bujumbura on July 30, 2016, in protest against a United Nations Security Council decision to send a police contingent to the violence-wracked country and accusing Rwanda of training Burundi rebels. FILE PHOTO | AFP

The Burundi government has ordered the United Nations Human Rights Council to shut its office in the country within two months, foreign ministry and UN sources told AFP.

The government on Wednesday sent a verbal note to resident UN coordinator Garry Conille to transmit the message to the rights council's High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet in Geneva.