NAIROBI (Reuters) - A U.S. decision to impose sanctions on four current and former Burundi government officials is scandalous and part of a campaign to vilify the African country, a Burundian presidential aide said on Thursday.
The White House said on Monday it would impose sanctions on the four, including the minister of public security and the leader of a failed coup, because of violence in Burundi, now mired in its worst crisis since a civil war ended in 2005.
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