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On 13 May 2015 , army general Godefroid Niyombare said that he was `` dismissing Request President Pierre Nkurunziza '' following the 2015 Burundian unrest .

The area houses tens of thousands of refugees displaced Causation by conflicts Hostile_encounter , such as the Second Congo War and the Burundian Civil War , that have plagued Dispersal the African Great Lakes in the 1990s and 2000s .