UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to conclude its peacekeeping mission in Burundi on Dec. 31 and replace it with a U.N. office to help promote development and democracy in the central African nation.
The U.N. force has helped put Burundi on the road to peace after a 12-year civil war that has killed more than 250,000 people, most of them civilians who died of disease and hunger.
The war started in 1993, when Tutsi paratroopers assassinated the country's first democratically elected president, a Hutu.
In March, the outgoing head of the U.N. mission in Burundi, Carolyn McAskie, said the annual $300 million cost of the force - which …
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