AU Will not Supervise Burundi Elections Before National Reconciliation.

Medan, 26 May 2015(Lana) The African Union Political Affairs Commissioner Aisha Abdullah has said that the AU would not send observers to the Burundi elections so long as parties are reluctant to sit to the negotiation table, to seek an end to violence in the country. The African Union is working through the political Affairs Commission to bridge the gap between parties to the conflict, and to get the country back on track for a comprehensive national reconciliation, as a prelude to holding national elections whereby the Union will send observers, Abdullah said at a AU Parliament working session. The Foreign Minister of Togo is assigned to liaise with the parties in Burundi, in a bid to reach national reconciliation and pave the way for conducting the elections, she said. She called for an end to armed conflicts in Burundi, Democratic Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and Central African Republic, and praised Uganda's effort to absorb refugees, to enable them to produce their own food, instead of waiting for aid to be delivered to them. =Lana=