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Protesters have taken to the streets of Burundi for a second day after activists said that at least five people were killed during clashes with police a day earlier. The protests began on Sunday in the capital, Bujumbura, following the president’s plan to run for a third term, a move critics say violates the constitution, which limits leaders to two terms in office.

Burundi’s ruling CNDD-FDD party nominated the incumbent Pierre Nkurunziza as its presidential candidate on Saturday, prompting hundreds of civil society groups to condemn the move.

Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb, reporting from Bujumbura, said the city centre was quiet yesterday but that there had been protests in several other suburbs.

“Massive crowds of about a few hundred people have been gathering. They aren’t doing anything,” he said.

Police broke up a march of around 1,000 youths trying to reach Burundi’s capital. — AFP