A meeting in Uganda at the end of 2015 to resolve the conflict in Burundi did little to bring hope to the violence ravaged East African nation, serving only to highlight the crisis as the region’s most pressing security issue in the coming year.
Last week on December 28 Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni opened the latest round of Burundi peace talks to stop months of fighting triggered in April by president Pierre Nkurunziza’s plans to seek a third term in office.
