KIGALI: Rwanda will send Burundian refugees to other countries, the foreign minister said on Friday, after the United States said that they were being recruited from camps to fight on behalf of the Burundian opposition.

Louise Mushikiwabo said in a statement that Rwanda would immediately begin working with partners in the international community to relocate refugees from aid-dependent Burundi.

“For Rwanda, the growing risks to our national security from the Burundian impasse and misunderstandings in our foreign relations are unacceptable,” she said, without elaborating.

Burundi was plunged into one of its worst crises since a civil war ended in 2005 after President Pierre Nkurunziza decided in April to run for a third term in office, a move that opponents said was against the constitution.