Another spanner has been thrown into the wheel of
progress in the bid to find a possible truce to the Burundian political crisis
that has plunged the country into nationwide protests and unrests as well as
attempted coup yesterday as the Burundi Government led by the embattled President
Pierre Nkurunziza and his officials failed to show up for peace talks slated
for Uganda by Ugandan Defence Minister and Mediator Crispus Kiyonga.
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President Pierre Nkurunziza being led to a political campaign rally by loyalist-soldiers |
This suspension is coming 48hours before the
Burundians go to the polls in an election which the opposition is saying President
Pierre Nkurunziza is not constitutional eligible to contest. Opposition groups are
saying another term would be violation of the peace deal that ended the 12
years of civil war in 2006 that claimed many lives.
