Urgent: Regional leaders call for further postponement of elections in Burundi

The leaders from the East African Community (EAC) partner states on Sunday expressed their concerns at the political crisis on Burundi, calling for further postponement of elections in the East African country.

"The summit concerned at the continued impasse in Burundi and the need for further dialogue, called for the longer postponement of the elections in Burundi for a period not less than one and a half month," a communique said after an emergency summit of the EAC heads of state on the situation in Burundi, which brought together Presidents from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Endi