Results are expected tomorrow.

Voters were asked to say yes or no to a proposal that Pierre Nkurunziza be allowed to contest two seven- year terms after his mandate expires in 2020.

Half of Burundi’s 4,8 million people registered to vote.

Those calling for a boycott risked a three-year jail term.

Main opposition figure Agathon Rwasa says there were irregularities in yesterday’s voting that the government says was very orderly.

Nkurunziza came to power in 2005 and won an unconstitutional third term in 2015.

Nearly half a million people have fled ensuing violence that killed hundreds of protestors.

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