More than 500 people have died and half million been displaced in the T Great Lakes country  Nkuruziza opted to take an unconstitutional third term in power.

Special envoy for the United Nations Secretary General to Burundi Michel Kafando says its vital that negotiations  on the future of the country be inclusive.

This means the opposition must end its boycott of talks.

Kafando recommends that that his three-month mission be continued and that regional mediator, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni and his facilitator, former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa convene a regional summit on Burundi without delay.

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President Jacob Zuma has begun bilateral meetings that will keep him occupied most of the week. He’s seen President Thomas Boni Yayi of Benin.

The theme of the summit in Sandton is the Year of Women Empowerment and Development Towards Africa’s Agenda 2063.

It will guide discussions of foreign ministers later this week and of the African heads of state next Saturday and Sunday.

But yet again countries of the continent have presented their leaders with burning issues to look at.

These include: the deep divisions and instability in Libya; the civil war in South Sudan; unrest and an abortive coup triggered by Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza’s determination to seek an unconstitutional third term at the helm; and Madagascar being driven back into confusion by parliamentary efforts to impeach President Heri Rajoanarimampianina

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