BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Riot police tried to stop a meeting of Burundi's junior coalition party on Sunday, officials and witnesses said, firing teargas, clashing with members and exacerbating a political crisis in the tiny East African country.
Officers surrounded the headquarters of the Tutsi-led UPRONA party - the minority member of a government set up under power-sharing arrangements to keep ethnic tensions in check after a 12-year civil war ended in 2005.
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