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’s controversial third term bid.
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, South Africa’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and the US top diplomat for Africa Linda Thomas-Greenfield are also expected to attend the summit.
Foreign ministers from the five-nation East African Community (EAC) — made up of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda as well as Burundi — met in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said, ahead of the presidential summit later Wednesday
Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe made a brief announcement saying that the two main issues to be discussed will be “security in Burundi” and the “refugee problem”. However, he did not mention the cause of the political crisis, ie the bid for a third term of incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza.
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