{"id":19503,"date":"2015-05-13T04:13:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T04:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-in-tanzania-for-burundi-crisis\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:24:17","slug":"president-kagame-in-tanzania-for-burundi-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-in-tanzania-for-burundi-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame in Tanzania for Burundi crisis Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8066 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ce3-idqwoaatnas.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame at the Airport in Tanzania\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{President Paul Kagame on Wednesday joined other East African leaders who are gathering in Tanzania for a crisis summit meeting hoped to broker a deal to end weeks of deadly violence in Burundi over the president&#8217;s controversial third term bid. } <\/p>\n<p>Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, South Africa&#8217;s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and the US top diplomat for Africa Linda Thomas-Greenfield are also expected to attend the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign ministers from the five-nation East African Community (EAC) &#8212; made up of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda as well as Burundi &#8212; met in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said, ahead of the presidential summit later Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe made a brief announcement saying that the two main issues to be discussed will be &#8220;security in Burundi&#8221; and the &#8220;refugee problem&#8221;. 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