UN arm-twisted to shut human rights office in Burundi

Burundi has forced the United Nations to shut its local human rights office after 23 years, the U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in a statement on Tuesday, expressing "deep regret".

Bachelet said Burundi's government had declared that it had made sufficient progress in human rights so that the existence of the U.N. office was no longer justified.

(With inputs from agencies.)