East African heads of state call for posteponement of Burundi elections

By Isaac Senabulya on June 3, 2015 Burundi Crisis, EAC heads, Hon. Alain Nyamitwe, Minister for East African Community, Minister of External and International Cooperation representing the Republic of Burundi and Hon. Valentine Rugwabiza, President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of the United Republic of Tanzania, President Uhuru Kenyatta of the Republic of Kenya, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of the Republic of Uganda Regional

East African Heads of State called for the postponement of the elections in Burundi for a period not less than one and a half months and appealed to institutions in Burundi including parliament to facilitate this postponement. In a joint communiqué issued at the end of an emergency summit on the Burundi situation held at […]