Dar es Salaam--Elections in Burundi should be delayed by at least a month and a half and all violence must stop, East African leaders said Sunday after a summit on the crisis.
"The summit, concerned at the impasse in Burundi, strongly calls for a long postponement of the elections not less than a month and a half," the East African Community said in a statement read out by its secretary general, Richard Sezibera, after a meeting of regional leaders in Tanzania.
The statement called "on all parties to stop violence," for the "disarmament of all armed youth groups" and for "the creation of conditions for the return of refugees" who have fled weeks of political violence.
AFP
