With the funeral of ex-peace talks facilitator Julius Nyerere now over, the focus in Burundi is again on the Arusha peace process. The eight mainly pro-Tutsi parties making up the Convergence nationale pour la paix et la reconciliation (CNPR) have called for moving the process away from Tanzanian territory “where armed groups are carrying out terrorist acts against Burundi”. In a memorandum to the UN and OAU, the CNPR said it was “logically impossible” to conduct negotiations calmly in Tanzania and proposed continuing the process in South Africa or at the OAU headquarters in Addis Ababa. The statement added it was “indispensable” to negotiate a ceasefire accord before going ahead with political discussions.
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