{The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) is still awaiting a report of the regional body’s special envoy on the Burundi crisis, Gabon’s Foreign Minister Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet said on Monday.}
Burundi is one of the ten ECCAS member states along with Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sao Tome et Principe.
Issoze-Ngondet said that Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba, the current ECCAS chairman, “will work with other members of the international community to ease the current tension in Burundi and ensure presidential elections are held in a peaceful environment.”
He said the envoy’s report will soon be handed to Ondimba.
On May 27, ECCAS appointed former Chadian president Goukouni Weddeye as its special envoy to Burundi, who is expected to hold talks with Burundi’s political actors to find a solution to the current political crisis.
Burundi has been in turmoil following the decision by President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term in the elections due in June.
-Xinhua
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