Burundi?s President Pierre Nkurunziza
Burundi?s President Pierre Nkurunziza has?appeared in public as EA meets over Burundi peace.
The meeting by EAC Foreign Affairs Ministers follows attempted overthrow of the Bujumbura government last week and a wave of violence protesting the move by President Nkurunziza to stand for re-election in June, this year.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of East African Cooperation, Ms Joyce Mapunjo, revealed that the ministers are expected to receive a report from a team of lawyers who have been working on the issue.
?The meeting by the Council of Ministers is as well meant to set ground for another meeting of EAC Heads of State. It was agreed during the meeting of the latter in Dar es Salaam last week that they should meet within a fortnight,? Ms Mapunjo said.
Heads of State of EAC member states namely Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda last Wednesday condemned the coup attempt staged the same day in Burundi and demanded the postponement of the country?s presidential elections, which are slated for June. Burundi was scheduled to hold legislative elections this month and the presidential poll in June.
It could be recall that President Nkurunziza came under pressure after the ruling CNDDFDD chose him to represent the party in the presidential vote.
However Critics said the move would be unconstitutional, and there have been almost daily protests since Nkurunziza?s announcement, stirring memories of an ethnically-driven civil war that ended a decade ago.
Also, 18 people suspected of involvement in a failed coup against President Nkurunziza were taken to the high court on Saturday.
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